Expanded polystyrene geofoam in pavement construction

A Mohajerani, M Ashdown, L Abdihashi… - Construction and Building …, 2017 - Elsevier
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) has offered solutions to many civil engineering problems
associated with pavement construction. Issues, such as the construction of pavements on …

Methods of protecting buried pipelines and culverts in transportation infrastructure using EPS geofoam

SF Bartlett, BN Lingwall, J Vaslestad - Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 2015 - Elsevier
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam is an ultra-light geosynthetic often incorporated in
transportation infrastructure to reduce horizontal and vertical stresses imposed on buried …

A novel analytical model coupling hydrodynamic-structural-material scales for very large floating photovoltaic support structures

Z **, Y Liu, M Zhu, H Fang, A Li - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Floating solar farms are emerging as a viable option for large-scale solar power production.
Considering the sustained wave action and the low deadweight of solar power components …

Behavior of expanded polystyrene (EPS) blocks under cyclic pavement foundation loading

SMA Ghotbi Siabil… - Geosynthetics …, 2019 - icevirtuallibrary.com
This study introduces a mechanism for initial assessment and future development to improve
understanding of expanded polystyrene (EPS) behavior as a super-lightweight material for …

Experimental-numerical assessment of geogrid-EPS systems for protecting buried utilities

M Abdollahi, SN Moghaddas Tafreshi… - Geosynthetics …, 2019 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a lightweight material commonly used in sensitive
geotechnical applications, particularly in transportation applications that often see a …

Protection of buried utilities against repeated loading: Application of geogrid-EPS geofoam system

M Abdollahi, SN Moghaddas Tafreshi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam is commonly used as lightweight fill materials in wide
range of geotechnical engineering applications including protection of buried utilities and …

Effects of embedded trench installations using expanded polystyrene geofoam applied to buried corrugated steel arch structures

RRV Santos, J Kang, JS Park - Tunnelling and Underground Space …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the years, considerable progress have been made for the improvement of the design
criteria of buried culverts that increased in size and numbers with the development of …

Compression creep test on expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam

YZ Beju, JN Mandal - International Journal of Geotechnical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam is vulnerable to time-dependent creep deformation
when a constant magnitude stress level is applied. In the present study, an attempt has been …

Mitigation of vibrations in high-speed railway cuttings using expanded-polystyrene blocks

A Lyratzakis, Y Tsompanakis… - Transportation Geotechnics, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last years, a rapid growth of high-speed railways (HSR) has been observed in
many countries. Due to the increased operational speed, a major side-effect of this growth is …

Effects of geofoam panels on static behavior of cantilever retaining wall

N Hasanpouri Notash, R Dabiri - Advances in Civil Engineering, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Geofoam is one of the geosynthetic products that can be used in geotechnical applications.
According to researches, expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam placed directly against a …