The creep behavior is one of the most important properties of geosynthetics used in reinforced soil structures. This parameter is usually characterized by standard tests, using in-isolation specimens, with controlled temperature and humidity conditions. Although their widespread use, these tests present two main concerns: they are time-consuming and may not consider the possibly significant effect of soil confinement. Together, these aspects may lead to expensive tests and conservative results. In order to address them, standard tests could be performed at elevated temperatures and under the confinement of soil. Several approaches have been presented in the technical literature in order to consider each of these aspects, but only independently. Recently, a new apparatus was developed in order to conduct confined and accelerated creep tests using geosynthetics. Thus, both concerns involving standard creep tests (i.e. elevation of the test temperature and specimen under soil confinement) are addressed simultaneously. This work presents a set of creep tests performed under different conditions with this equipment. A non-woven geotextile and a biaxial geogrid were used in these tests, which comprised the creep deformation behavior both in in-isolation and in-soil conditions and geosynthetic creep rupture in condition confined to the non-woven geotextile. Results highlight the importance of both using elevated temperatures to expedite the determination of geosynthetics creep behavior and the effect of soil confinement in lower rates of creep deformations. In addition, it was found that the reduction factors due to creep were considerably lower than those suggested by the literature.
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