Influence of suction induced by grass root

Slope failures problems nowadays are often receive some attention from various parties, especially from the local authority. Although many studies have been conducted to improve slope failures, most studies often ignore the influence of matric suction of vegetation or plants. The conservative soluti...

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Main Author:	Ya’Acob, Nurulfara
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53816/1/NurulfaraYaacobMFKA2015.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.538162020-09-06T08:56:07Z Influence of suction induced by grass root 2015-06 Ya’Acob, Nurulfara TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Slope failures problems nowadays are often receive some attention from various parties, especially from the local authority. Although many studies have been conducted to improve slope failures, most studies often ignore the influence of matric suction of vegetation or plants. The conservative solution to prevent the slope failure is by planting grass at the slope. Grass can be classified in many different types and appearance, but for this project, original grass at study area which is known as Cow grass will be used as a study to determine the matric suction due to grass water uptake. The scope of this study will only include grasses and residual soil within the location in the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) campus. Any kind of tree would not be involved in this study. Verification of the simulation results for this study will be carried out by conducting measurements at different level of depth of soil to see the pattern of the matric suction. The factor of safety of the soil also has been considered by using parameters data from laboratory testing. The percentage comparison between saturated soil and soil that originally covered by grass is about 64.7% difference. It has shown that vegetation contributes more stability to slope analysis. 2015-06 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53816/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53816/1/NurulfaraYaacobMFKA2015.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:85412 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
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description	Slope failures problems nowadays are often receive some attention from various parties, especially from the local authority. Although many studies have been conducted to improve slope failures, most studies often ignore the influence of matric suction of vegetation or plants. The conservative solution to prevent the slope failure is by planting grass at the slope. Grass can be classified in many different types and appearance, but for this project, original grass at study area which is known as Cow grass will be used as a study to determine the matric suction due to grass water uptake. The scope of this study will only include grasses and residual soil within the location in the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) campus. Any kind of tree would not be involved in this study. Verification of the simulation results for this study will be carried out by conducting measurements at different level of depth of soil to see the pattern of the matric suction. The factor of safety of the soil also has been considered by using parameters data from laboratory testing. The percentage comparison between saturated soil and soil that originally covered by grass is about 64.7% difference. It has shown that vegetation contributes more stability to slope analysis.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Ya’Acob, Nurulfara
author_facet	Ya’Acob, Nurulfara
author_sort	Ya’Acob, Nurulfara
title	Influence of suction induced by grass root
title_short	Influence of suction induced by grass root
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering
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publishDate	2015
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