3. Coherent soil treatment
3.1 Replacement, relief, compensation
A radical method of soil improvement is simply to replace the layer of poor soil with a layer of good soil: this is the replacement technique.
When building embankments on soft soils, another solution is to replace the embankment with a material of much lower density: this is the lightening technique.
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The "classic" replacement of soft soil by a material with good load-bearing capacity...
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Standards and norms
- Special geotechnical work – Vibratory soil improvement – AFNOR - Norme NF EN 14731 - (December 2005 – classification index P 94-340) :
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