New seismic parameters in the analysis of retaining walls with reinforced backfill

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 350-356

  Shekarian, S ^a   Ghanbari, A ^a   Farhadi, A ^a  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Active earth pressure; Horizontal slices; Reinforced soil; Retaining wall

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; PRESSURE; RETAINING WALLS; SOILS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ACTIVE EARTH PRESSURE; ANALYTICAL METHODS; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; ELSEVIER (CO); EXTENSION-FORCE; HORIZONTAL SEISMIC ACCELERATION; PSEUDO STATIC METHOD; REINFORCED BACKFILL; REINFORCED SOIL WALLS; REINFORCED SOILS; SEISMIC ACCELERATIONS; SEISMIC PARAMETERS; SLICES METHOD; SOIL STRUCTURE (IGC: D5/D10);

SEISMOLOGY;

BACKFILL; EARTH PRESSURE; RETAINING WALL; SEISMIC DESIGN; SOFTWARE; SOIL REINFORCEMENT; SOIL STRUCTURE;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE; SOIL REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 46149099559     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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