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Geofoam Blocks in Civil Engineering Applications

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In Norway the use of Geofoam blocks in road construction applications started in 1972. Excessive settlements of a road embankment adjoining a bridge abutment founded on piles to firm ground was then successfully halted by replacing a 1 m layer of road aggregate with blocks of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS). Boards of EPS had previously been successfully tested in road structures over several years in a major research project related to Frost Action in Soils. The use of Geofoam blocks for lightweight fill purposes, reduced earth pressure and several other applications for a variety of Civil Engineering purposes, has since been adopted and further developed in many countries worldwide. In this article the state of the art regarding various applications of Geofoam blocks are shown based on available information supplied by the authors.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA), Oslo, Norway

    Roald Aabøe & Jan Vaslestad

  2. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Steven Floyd Bartlett

  3. InfraDelft, Delft, The Netherlands

    Milan Duškov

  4. Geo Con, Oslo, Norway

    Tor Erik Frydenlund

  5. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

    Jnanendra Nath Mandal

  6. University of Syracuse, Syracuse, USA

    Dawit Negussey

  7. Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Abdullah Tolga Özer

  8. Construction Project Consultants Inc., Tokyo, Japan

    Hideki Tsukamoto

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

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  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Abdullah Tolga Özer

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

    Steven Floyd Bartlett

  4. Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Oslo, Norway

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Aabøe, R. et al. (2019). Geofoam Blocks in Civil Engineering Applications. In: Arellano, D., Özer, A., Bartlett, S., Vaslestad, J. (eds) 5th International Conference on Geofoam Blocks in Construction Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78981-1_1

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