• ABHISHEK U. TRIPATHI

Nowadays, Reinforced earth wall is preferred over conventional RCC rigid retaining wall, because of ease in construction, reduced cost, and better performance. The huge mound of garbage at Pirana landfill (Ahmedabad, Gujarat) has become a complex problem due to its environmental impact. Generally cohesionless material is used as a backfill in Reinforced Earth wall and recent studies have confirmed that municipal solid waste(MSW) is a cohesionless material. Also the result of using MSW were quite satisfactory under static loading. The main objective of present research work is assessment of Municipal solid waste of Pirana landfill as a suitable backfill material for Reinforced earth wall through segregation and infusement of synthetic reinforcement at suitable positions. For this purpose, load-settlement and load-displacement tests are carried out under dynamic loading on sand, MSW, dry mixture of 1sand:3MSW and on mixture of 1sand:3MSW at 40%, 50% and 60% saturation. Geogrid is used as a reinforcement. The length of geogrid used is 525mm and it is placed at a spacing of 150 mm in five layers. Further various chemical tests are also done.

Reinforced , MSW, Backfill, Dynamic, Geogrid

"ASSESSMENT OF USE OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE AS A BACKFILL MATERIAL IN REINFORCED EARTH WALL UNDER DYNAMIC LOADING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.285-290, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904542.pdf

"ASSESSMENT OF USE OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE AS A BACKFILL MATERIAL IN REINFORCED EARTH WALL UNDER DYNAMIC LOADING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp285-290, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904542.pdf