Seismic displacements of geosynthetic-reinforced soil modular block walls

Geosynthetics International

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-23

  Huang, C C ^a   Chou, L H ^b   Tatsuoka, F ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Failure; Geosynthetic reinforced modular block wall; Geosynthetics; Pseudo static analysis; Seismic displacement; Seismic stability

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; REINFORCEMENT; RETAINING WALLS; SEISMOLOGY; SETTLEMENT OF STRUCTURES; SOIL TESTING;

GEOSYNTHETIC-REINFORCED SOIL MODULAR BLOCK WALLS; PSEUDO-STATIC ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DISPLACEMENTS; SEISMIC STABILITY;

GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS;

GEOSYNTHETICS; RETAINING WALL; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

BUCKLING; DEFORMATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GEOSYNTHETICS; SHEAR PROPERTY; SOIL REINFORCEMENT; STRENGTH; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 24944550146     PISSN: 10726349     EISSN: 10726349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/gein.2003.10.1.2     Document Type: Article

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