Practically, some remedial measures could be applied to the Qinghai-Tibet highway/railway, including embankments, paving thermosiphons and ventiducts, and crushed-rock structure embankments.
The soil reinforcement by geosynthetic is widely used in civil engineering structures: embankments on compressible soil, slope on stable foundations, embankments on cavities and retaining structures.
The UK's first "air rights" building – constructed on top of an existing structure – 1 Embankment Place was built over Charing Cross Station in the early 1990s.
Improper designs and non-environmentally friendly sea shore recreation facilities have been constructed by some developers, such as hard structures; earth embankment jetties; digging lagoons and placing landfill, all creating harmful impacts on the coastal ecosystem.
Topics include pile/column technology as foundations, retaining structures, or embankment supports, physical and chemical technologies for soil stabilization and ground improvement, geosynthetic reinforcement for roads, slopes, retaining walls, and foundations.
In the design of sheltering structures or embankments for the mitigation of the risk due to rapid and long spreading landslides, a crucial role is played by the evaluation of the impact force exerted by the flowing mass on the artificial obstacle.
Also, the new embankment structure has lower water content in the upper layer and smaller frost heave and thawing settlement than the latter does.
Third, the new-type embankment structure is effective to decrease the underlying ground temperature and to ensure the stability of expressway with a wide (multi-lane) and high-temperature upper surface in warm permafrost regions.
A new kind of embankment structure, which consists of geotextile, crushed-rock layer and geomembrane, was designed and investigated both in the laboratory and at the field of Budongquan located at Qinghai Tibet Plateau.
