ABSTRACT
Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency (Finland), Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Norway) and Swedish Transport Administration (Sweden) have asked Sintef (Norway) to prepare and manage the writing of guidelines on the Use of GeosyntHetics in Nordic conditions. The Rough project (RecOmmendations for the Use of GeosyntHetics in Nordic conditions) has been organized to collect all existing information and provide missing data. The corresponding work is presented in this communication: it focuses on the behaviour of geosynthetics during installation in Nordic conditions. The work is organised in two parts: (1) a full-scale on-site experiment in Kemi (Finland) on installation under Nordic conditions for the applications with functions reinforcement/stabilisation, filtration, drainage; and (2) considering the difficulty of the realisation of similar on-site experiment for sealing, it has been decided to realise a literature study associated with a synthesis of the state of the art for sealing.
