Influence of reinforcement parameters on the seismic response of reduced-scale reinforced soil retaining walls

MM El-Emam, RJ Bathurst - Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 2007 - Elsevier
The focus of the paper is on the influence of reinforcement design parameters (ie stiffness,
length and vertical spacing) on the simulated earthquake response of reinforced soil …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of numerical and analytical solutions for reinforced soil wall shaking table tests

S Zarnani, MM El-Emam, RJ Bathurst - Geomechanics and …, 2011 - koreascience.kr
The paper describes a simple numerical FLAC model that was developed to simulate the
dynamic response of two instrumented reduced-scale model reinforced soil walls …

Shaking table study of the influence of facing on reinforced soil wall connection loads

P Xu, K Hatami, G Jiang - Geosynthetics International, 2020 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Reinforcement plays an important role in seismic stability and performance of reinforced soil
retaining walls, and accurate assessment of reinforcement connection loads is an essential …

Shaking table study on the seismic performance of geogrid reinforced soil retaining walls

X Cai, S Li, H Xu, L **g, X Huang… - Advances in Civil …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents experimental results from shaking table tests on a reduced‐scale
geogrid reinforced soil retaining wall (RSRW) to investigate the seismic response of the …

Earth pressure coefficients for design of geosynthetic reinforced soil structures

CS Vieira, M de Lurdes Lopes, LM Caldeira - Geotextiles and …, 2011 - Elsevier
There are several methods proposed in the last two decades that can be used to design
geosynthetic reinforced soil retaining walls and slopes. The majority of them are based on …

Dynamic Performance Assessment of MSE Walls under High-Speed Train Loads

M Joseph, S Banerjee - International Journal of Geomechanics, 2025 - ascelibrary.org
Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) retaining walls have been successfully implemented in
numerous applications, particularly where dynamic loads such as earthquake and traffic …

Experimental modeling of strip footing adjacent to non-yielding retaining wall

M El-Emam, M Touqan - Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, 2020 - Springer
A series of reduced-scale models were tested to assess the performance of non-yielding
basement wall due to strip footing constructed adjacent to it. Construction design parameters …

Modulus and dam** from shaking table tests of reinforced soil walls

MM El-Emam - Geomechanics and Geoengineering, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The paper presents rational procedures to estimate normalised shear modulus and dam**
ratio from measured responses of reinforced soil model walls tested in a 1-g shaking table …

[PDF][PDF] Numerical modelling of a geosynthetic reinforced steep slope subjected to seismic loading

CS Vieira, ML Lopes, L Caldeira - Proc., III ECCOMAS …, 2011 - congress.cimne.com
In recent earthquakes the performance of reinforced soil retaining walls was diverse. The
Hyogoken-Nambu (Kobe) Earthquake caused serious damage to conventional masonry …

[PDF][PDF] Numerical modelling of a geosynthetic reinforced soil retaining wall subjected to seismic loading

CS Vieira, ML Lopes, L Caldeira - … of the 8th …, 2006 - library.geosyntheticssociety.org
The study regards a reinforced wall of height H= 6 m with ten (n= 10) horizontal
reinforcement layers, uniformly spaced, of length L= 4.2 m, attached to a continuous facing …