Stability of granite drystone masonry retaining walls: II. Relevant parameters and analytical and numerical studies of real walls

Geotechnique

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1027-1040

  Alejano, L R ^a   Veiga, M ^b   Gomez Marquez I ^a   Taboada, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b Itasca Consultants AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Failure; Numerical modelling; Retaining walls

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; EMPIRICAL METHOD; ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY; FACTOR OF SAFETY; FRICTION ANGLES; FULL SCALE TESTS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SHEAR STRENGTH REDUCTION TECHNIQUE; STONE BLOCKS; STRENGTH PROPERTY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; GRANITE; MASONRY MATERIALS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SAFETY FACTOR; SLOPE STABILITY;

RETAINING WALLS;

BACK ANALYSIS; BACKFILL; BUILDING CODE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRANITE; MASONRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RETAINING WALL; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871042444     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.10.P.113     Document Type: Article

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