On the required connection strength of geosynthetically reinforced walls

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 15, Issue 4-6, 1997, Pages 377-393

  Soong, Te Yang ^a   Koerner, Robert M ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUTMENTS (BRIDGE); DEFORMATION; REINFORCEMENT; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CONNECTION STRENGTH; CONNECTION STRESS; GEOSYNTHETICALLY REINFORCED WALLS;

GEOTEXTILES;

GEOSYNTHETIC; RETAINING WALL;

GEOTEXTILE PROPERTIES; GEOTEXTILES, REINFORCEMENT; TEXTILES, ARCHITECTURAL;

EID: 0031200741     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-1144(97)10016-4     Document Type: Article

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