ABSTRACT Drainage system is all important part of highway engineering,and subsurface drainage system including underground drainage,median separator drainage,retaining wall drainage and slope drainage is important in ensuring the performance and life of highway.However,current drainage design method and traditional drainage material can’t satisfy the requirement of complex terra and climate condition.The two main topics of the dissertation is the improvement of the drainage design theory and the analyse of the application technique of geosynthetics in highway drainage engineering. The main research work on the drainage design theory is as follow: (1) Based on the current design theory,underground drainage method is expanded all improved greatly.After analyzing the limitation of the calculating method for underdrain,it is developed for underdrain in complicated geology or terrain,especially when the underdrain is located in aquifer and the bedrock is not even.Moreover,the close underdrain is introduced with the main structure,construction technique and calculating method.Then,the representative drainage problems of highway engineering in low-lying flatterrain are summarized and the resolvent is put forward considering the terrain characteristic.Afterward,the drainage calculating theory and method on retaining wall and slope is developed.It is indicated that the calculating method for retaining wall with stable seepage is same as underdrain drainage and the unsaturated seepage is the main problem of retaining wall drainage. (2) The subsurface drainage problems in highway engineering are analyzed with numerical method-FEM seepage,especially the calculating zone is anomalistic and the boundary condition is difficult to expressed with mathematics equation,such as unfull underdrain,the underdrain is located in aquifer and the bedrock is not even. (3) Based on unsaturated soil mechanics,the highway drainage design method considering unsaturated seepage is developed.Several typical underdrains are analyzed by unsaturated seepage FEM and the result is compared with that from the existing method.Without considering the unsaturated seepage,the existing method underestimates the flux of seepage which is validated by a true project. The main research work on the application technique of geosynthetics in highway drainage engineering is as follow: (1) The key performance indexes are tested by a great deal of indoor experiments and the test methods are validated at the same time.Then some new indexes ale put forward.The emphases of the research is about the design indexes of geotextile filter(such as equivalent pore size,coefficient of permeability and gradient ratio),the influence of geomembrance damage to leakage and the drainage ability index of geocomposite material. (2) The classified index system of geosynthetics in highway wateproof and drainage engineering was established.Thus,geosynthetic materials were sorted in terms of product and application.Then the representative construction format for geosynthetics application in highway drainage engineering including underground drainage,retaining wall drainage,median separator drainage,edge drainage and slope drainage Was introduced.Finally the systemic design method is formed. In the end.the result from theory research and indoor experiment is validated by several test sections of two highways. Keywords:Highway Engineering,Drainage,Design Theory,Geosynthetics,Underdrain,Retaining Wall,Slope,Seepage,Unsaturated Soil,Filtration,Clogging,Drainage Ability Coefficient |