... foundation for the application of the novel VIP retaining system. centrifuge modelling clays design excavation retaining walls National Natural Science Foundation of China 52408384 This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 52408384...

... soil retaining structure retaining walls soil arching As a common type of geotechnical infrastructure, retaining walls have been widely constructed to maintain the stability of soils behind the retaining structures. When designing a retaining wall, of concern is determining the active earth...

...Chuhan Deng; Stuart K. Haigh A series of centrifuge tests was conducted to explore the deformation mechanisms and earth pressures mobilised in loose and dense sand for a complete set of passive movement modes of a rigid retaining wall: rotation about the top and base and translation. Sand...

... retaining walls seismic response soil nail axial force soil-nailed walls soil nailing wall movements To simulate the soil–nail interaction, the model rods were coated with a thin film of epoxy adhesive, and then carefully rolled over in the sand to provide a uniform sand coating. The final...

...Srikanth S. C. Madabhushi; Stuart K. Haigh Dual-row retaining walls can be utilised to form embankment structures for protection against tsunamis or as port structures. The dynamic response of these walls involves a complex interaction between the soil and structural elements which is not well...

...Chuhan Deng; Stuart K. Haigh A series of centrifuge tests was conducted to explore the deformation mechanisms mobilised in loose and dense sand for a complete set of active rigid retaining wall movement modes: rotation about the base and top and translation. The sand deformation was measured...

...Chuhan Deng; Stuart K. Haigh; Xianfeng Ma; Jiawei Xu Design of retaining walls in clay is typically based on ultimate limit state calculations to prevent collapse, with arbitrary factors of safety used to limit deformations. These factors of safety do not take into account the different rates...

..., similarly to what is observed for gravity retaining walls (Athanasopoulos-Zekkos et al., 2013 ; Conti et al., 2013), Green et al. (2008) and Kloukinas et al. (2015) claimed that the soil thrust maximising the internal forces on the vertical stem develops when...

... weight of backslope was assumed to be 20·0 kN/m³. 03 05 2017 14 03 2018 © 2018 Thomas Telford Ltd 2018 deformation field instrumentation numerical modelling retaining walls stress analysis Geosynthetic-reinforced retaining (GRR) walls have been used...

... of the ultimate lateral bearing capacity factor 09 06 2017 19 01 2018 earth pressure excavation finite-element modelling limit state design/analysis limit equilibrium methods piles & piling retaining walls Excavations in urban areas are often supported by soldier pile walls...

...E. Conte; A. Troncone; M. Vena A simple-to-use method is proposed for the design of embedded cantilever retaining walls in cohesionless soils under static and seismic conditions. Taking into account the displacement pattern generally exhibited by this type of structure, which consists...

... in proportioning foundations for gravity retaining walls. Regrettably, despite these suggestions and demonstrations, BSS thinking has not been adopted by the onshore geotechnical community. The purpose of this paper is to take the expressions used for conventional bearing strength calculations and show how...

..., S_v, and transverse width, S_h. 11 01 2016 03 05 2016 © 2016 Thomas Telford Ltd 2016 design full-scale tests geosynthetics numerical modelling reinforced soils retaining walls The internal design of a reinforced soil wall must ensure safety...

...D. J. Richards; C. A. Wiggan; W. Powrie Diaphragm and bored pile retaining walls are often used for the construction of basements, metro station boxes and cut-and-cover tunnels in urban areas. While diaphragm and secant pile walls are generally intended (and assumed in analysis) to be effectively...

...H. Liu In the design of geosynthetic-reinforced-soil (GRS) retaining walls for strength limit state, it is usually assumed that the soil strength is fully mobilised, but generally design guidelines do not have the specification on the required long-term reinforcement stiffness that may mobilise...

...T. Vo; H. Taiebat; A. R. Russell The results of six retaining wall model tests are reported. The model tests consisted of a rigid retaining wall rotating about its toe into unsaturated and dry silty sand samples. For a given moisture content, the net earth pressures normal to the wall were largest...

...) to model the retaining wall, and the development of an appropriate approach to model the structural influence of any construction joints in the retaining wall (Zdravkovic et al., 2005). This paper describes a detailed analysis of a complex deep excavation case history (the basement excavation...

... reserve capacity to provide large margins of safety against internal tensile rupture and pullout modes of failure even after large foundation displacements. anchors full-scale tests retaining walls Steel multi-anchor reinforced soil walls (MAWs) are now an accepted technology to perform...

...). Fig. 1 Kinematics of failure of reinforced structures: (a) reinforced retaining walls; (b) reinforced slopes; (c) enlarged view at X; (d) deformed reinforcement element However, conventional methods of analysis are empirical in nature and do not consider the extensibility of reinforcement...

.... In addition, a logical method to consider the effects of soil compaction and construction sequence is also not available. 28 03 2014 28 04 2015 © 2015 Thomas Telford Ltd 2015 compaction deformation earth pressure reinforced soils retaining walls Among various...