Performance of Pile-Supported Embankment over Soft Soil: Full-Scale Experiment

This paper describes a full-scale experiment of pile-supported embankments on soft soil, which is conducted within the French national research project, Amélioration des Sols par Inclusions RIgides (ASIRI), to provide a new design method. This experiment shows the great influence of a granular platform reinforced with geosynthetics in load-transfer mechanisms. The measurements of geosynthetic strains highlight that the maximum strain takes place...