Authors:
Vincent Tang Chok Khing
Book:
Proceedings of the 15th International Peat Congress
Venue:
Kuching
Keywords:
engineering, peatland, sarawak, soils
Documentfile:
ipc16p613-618a306khing.pdf
Summary:
SUMMARY
Road construction on peat/organic soils has always posed challenges to Engineers, Contractors and policy-makers, be it a technical, contractual obligation, or cost implication. The success of road construction on soft soils relies on various important factors such as proper planning, analysis, design, construction, control and supervision. For Engineers, the primary boundary conditions are the stability and allowable settlement in terms of serviceability limits both as a function of time. Our current observation reveals that many of the road embankments and culvert foundation failures are associated with geotechnical factors. Majority of these failures are still repeating and quite identical / similar in nature that they are caused by failure to comply with one or a combination of the above factors…