Feasibility Study on the Bamboo Grid Instead of Geogrid for Soil-Rock Mixture Subgrade Reinforcing

To promote the application of the bamboo grid in the soil-rock mixture subgrade in mountain areas, the mechanical properties of bamboo reinforcement were investigated in this study, and the reinforcement effect and interface characteristics of uniaxial/biaxial bamboo grid on the soil-rock mixture under different vertical loads was comparatively analyzed. The results show that the tensile force (2% elongation) of the bamboo reinforcement is 50.21 kN/m, and its average tensile strength is 236.01 MPa. Moreover, bamboo reinforcement has excellent shear and flexural properties. In general, the reinforcement effect of the biaxial bamboo grid on the soil-rock mixed subgrade is better than that of the uniaxial bamboo grid. In the case of using a uniaxial bamboo grid, its pull-out curve is generally a strain-softening type. As for the biaxial bamboo grid, due to the existence of bite force, its pull-out curve usually presents a strain-hardening type. Compared with the uniaxial bamboo grid, the friction coefficient of the reinforcement-soil interface using the biaxial bamboo grid is higher, and the interfacial shear stress is increased by 72.2-91.2%.