Study on Improvement Characteristics of a Novel Geotextile with Stitched Transverse Ribs

Geotextile is one of the reinforcement materials adopted in many engineering structures. Conventional geotextiles have a limited effect due to insufficient friction strength between and soils. This paper proposes novel type geotextile with stitched transverse ribs improve effect. A series large-scale direct shear tests been conducted, improvement characteristics conventional geotextiles, geogrids, studied. The results show that rib can significantly increase compared geogrids. Moreover, restraint on soils, increased increasing ribs. Insights from this study provide new understanding geotextile’s mechanism engineering.