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Using geotextile tubes in the core of a marine causeway to improve its stability

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Civil Engineering

Abstract

The present investigation employed ABAQUS V6.14 software to examine the stability of a marine causeway when using GTRS. GTRS is a geotechnical reinforcement system consisting of geotextile tubes in the core of a marine causeway. An additional aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the behavior of this system in diverse geotechnical environments. Many configurations of GTRS were investigated. The effect of the filling pressure, size of units, the number of units, and the type of filling material have been investigated. The filling pressure was implemented under three different values of 0 kPa, 20 kPa, and 40 kPa; it is worth mentioning that several preliminary models have been created to simulate the filling process of the geotextile tubes to have its deformed shape, two different diameters are employed; 2.00 m and 3.50 m, number of units was changed from 1 to 3, depending on the capacity of the core area. Three different filling materials were employed in the study, i.e., local soil, dense sand, and concrete. The results showed that filling pumping pressure does not significantly affect the stability of the marine causeway. The previous finding was opposite to the effect of the units' number, which has a high degree of influence on the causeway stability. Also, using larger sizes of geotubes is advised during the designing stage. Moreover, using concrete or even improved soil as a filling material obviously gives better performance for the causeway stability than using the same soil as a filling material.

DOI

10.21608/pserj.2023.238523.1263

Keywords

Numerical Modeling, Marine causeway, Geotextile Tubes, ABAQUS

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abou Seedah

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Department of Civil Engineering, The High Institute of Engineering and Technology in New Damietta, Damietta, Egypt

Email

a.abouseeda@eng.psu.edu.eg

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First Name

Ehab

Last Name

Tolba

MiddleName

R

Affiliation

Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt

Email

prof.tolba@eng.psu.edu.eg

City

Port Said

Orcid

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First Name

Elsayed

Last Name

Galal

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

PORT FOUD

Email

elsayed.galal@eng.psu.edu.eg

City

PORT SAID

Orcid

0000-0002-1079-1868

Volume

28

Article Issue

1

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46740

Issue Date

2024-03-01

Receive Date

2023-09-23

Publish Date

2024-03-01

Page Start

16

Page End

30

Print ISSN

1110-6603

Online ISSN

2536-9377

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https://pserj.journals.ekb.eg/article_328131.html

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328,131

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813

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Port-Said Engineering Research Journal

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https://pserj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Using geotextile tubes in the core of a marine causeway to improve its stability

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24 Dec 2024