Design methods for geosynthetic anchor trenches on the basis of true scale experiments and discrete modelling

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1193-1205

  Villard, Pascal ^a   Chareyre, Bruno ^a,b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE TRIBOLOGIE ET DYNAMIQUE DES SYSTÈMES   (France)

Author keywords

Anchorage; Design; Discrete elements; Failure; Geosynthetics; Pullout

Indexed keywords

ANCHORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL MECHANICS; TRENCHING;

COHESIVE SOIL; DISCRETE-ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; GEOSYNTHETIC ANCHOR TRENCHES; SOIL MASS;

GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS;

ANCHOR; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GEOSYNTHETICS; PULLOUT TEST;

EID: 15544384168     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/T04-063     Document Type: Article

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