Highway and railway alignments may be located close to, or even within, residential and commercial areas. Traffic-related noise pollution can have adverse effects on people living in these areas. To mitigate noise pollution, noise barriers can be constructed along transportation…
Due to its closed-cell structure, EPS absorbs only a very small amount of water by volume and therefore remains buoyant in water. This buoyancy is a characteristic that requires additional design considerations for geofoam block fill applications constructed on land,…
Where highway alignments pass through rock formations by means of cut excavations, very steep rock cut slopes may be formed. If the rockfall catch ditch is not sufficiently wide, fragments detaching from the rock slope may fall onto the highway…
Vibrations caused by many factors, including road and railway traffic, blasting, industrial activities, pile driving in construction, and earthquakes, can damage structures, people, vibration-sensitive equipment, and technical processes (Murillo et al., 2011). Since EPS consists of approximately 98% dry air,…
In addition to highway and railway embankments, airport taxiway and runway embankments to be constructed on soils with low bearing capacity and high settlement potential can also be built using geofoam blocks (Figure 1). As with highway and railway embankment…