Effect of wall geometry on the behaviour of reinforced soil walls

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 521-541

  Ho, S K ^a   Rowe, R Kerry ^b  

^a Hong Kong Tech Coll (Tsing Yi)   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; STIFFNESS;

SOIL WALLS; TRUNCATED REINFORCEMENT;

SOILS;

EID: 0030257173     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-1144(97)83183-4     Document Type: Article

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