EMBANKMENT AND METHOD OF ITS ERECTION Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC E02D17/18 

FIELD: construction.

SUBSTANCE: embankment includes soil filled layerwise in horizontal layers with compaction with at least one laid flexible reinforcing element, which in the cross section of the embankment crosses the separation border between the stable central part of the non-reinforced embankment and its unstable near-slope part, and perceives stretching forces at the side of the soil. Within the stable central part of the embankment the reinforcing element is laid to form a horizontal section, and within the unstable near-slope part the reinforcing element is laid to form a sloping section. Transition of the reinforcing element from the horizontal section to its inclined section is made as the reinforcing element crosses the separation border and with formation of the curvilinear section of the reinforcing element, and the inclined reinforcing section creates with the horizon an angle β, which meets the requirement α/2≥β>3°, where α - sharp angle between the embankment slope and the horizon in the range of the height of the inclined section of the reinforcing element.

EFFECT: invention provides for retention of an unstable near-slope part of an embankment from collapse with flexible reinforcing elements without its initial displacement and without reduction of reinforced embankment stability along its deep sliding surfaces.

7 cl, 3 dwg