Earthquake response of reinforced segmental retaining walls backfilled with substantial percentage of fines

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 934-944

  Ling, Hoe I ^a   Leshchinsky, Dov ^b   Mohri, Yoshiyuki ^c   Wang, Jui Pin ^d  

^a Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RURAL ENGINEERING   (Japan)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Geosynthetics; Low Quality backfill; Modular block; Reinforced soil retaining wall; Seismic response; Silty clay

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; EARTHQUAKES; GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; MIXTURES; REINFORCEMENT; RETAINING WALLS; SAND; SOIL TESTING; SOILS;

EARTHQUAKE LOADINGS; GEOSYNTHETICS; KOBE EARTHQUAKE; LOW QUALITIES; LOW-QUALITY BACKFILL; MODULAR BLOCK; MODULARS; REINFORCED SOIL RETAINING WALLS; SEGMENTAL RETAINING WALLS; SILTY-CLAY;

FACINGS;

BACKFILL; FINES; GEOSYNTHETICS; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995; LOADING; MOISTURE CONTENT; REINFORCEMENT; RETAINING WALL; SANDY SOIL; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SILTY CLAY;

EID: 84876346641     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(asce)gt.1943-5606.0000669     Document Type: Article

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