Reinforced soil for bridge support applications on low-volume roads

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 1, Issue 1652, 1999, Pages 150-160

  Adams, Michael ^a   Ketchart, Kanop ^b   Ruckman, Albert ^c   Dimillio, Albert F ^a   Wu, Jonathan ^b   Satyanarayana, Raghu ^d  

^a Federal Highway Administration Virginia Division   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Denver   (United States)

^c Yenter Companies   (United States)

^d ESC Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; RURAL ROADS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SUPPORTS;

GEOSYNTHETIC REINFORCED SOIL; LOW-VOLUME ROADS;

HIGHWAY BRIDGES;

EID: 0032639075     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1652-20     Document Type: Article

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