square-shaped geocell reinforced soil retaining wall has a substantially high seismic stability against a large seismic load, two shaking table model tests on reinforced soil retaining walls by using square-shaped geocell models and geogrid models backfilled in sandy soil were carried out. And a gravity-type retaining wall model was also tested for

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observed results of model reinforced soil walls. Richardson et al. (1977) pioneered small scale and full-scale shaking table tests on reinforced soil walls of metallic reinforcement. Sakaguchi (1996) carried out shaking table tests on a model of 1.5 high reinforced wall. The

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Aug 19, 2020 In this study, two shaking table tests were carried out on full-height panel and modular block reinforced soil retaining wall models in order to examine the influence of facing type on the connection loads in the two models

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A series of shaking table tests with irregular wave were carried out to investigate the seismic stability of reinforced-soil retaining and conventional type retaining walls. In these tests, reinforced-soil retaining wall models showed a ductile behavior compared to conventional type retaining wall model

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a shaking table tests were carried out on a conventional soil retaining wall model and a reinforced soil retaining wall model in Aug 19, 2020 In this study, two shaking table tests were carried out on full-height panel and modular block reinforced soil retaining wall models in order to examine the influence of facing type on the connection

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Aug 11, 2016 These geocells were used as facing of retaining wall models for laboratory shaking table tests. These geocells were honey-comb shaped and the pocket-size of the geocells was maintained as 100 mm. To understand the performance of the geocell walls to seismic shaking conditions, shaking table tests were carried out on retaining wall models

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table tests were carried out on model anchored flexible quay walls. Testing procedure, instrumentation, recorded results as well as some important observations are described in this paper. INSTRUMENTATION The investigations described in this paper were conducted using shaking table facilities of university of Tehran

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shaking table studies were conducted by various researchers [Wolfe, et al., 1978; Rea and Wolfe, 1980; Sommers and Wolfe, 1984]. Fairless [1989] tested six one-meter tall reinforced earth wall models under normal gravity on a shaking table. He concluded that seismic shaking and permanent displacement of reinforced walls

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model tests were carried out on sand retaining wall reinforced with denti-strip reinforcements which were one kind of 3D inclusions. Based on model tests, the progressive failure properties and failure model were analyzed. The deformation character and interaction mechanism of reinforced sand retaining wall were also discussed

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A series of reduced-scale shaking table tests and numerical simulation studies were carried out at the Royal Military College (RMC) of Canada to investigate the response of reinforced soil retaining walls to base acceleration. The wall models were 1 m high by 1.4 m wide by 2.4 m long and were constructed with a uniform sand backfill

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AASTHO-LRFD retaining wall per Caltrans specifications (2010), with a 4.5 m wide footing and a shear key to prevent rigid body sliding. A detailed model configuration and profile view is shown in Figure 1. The fourth experiment, named GC02, consisted of a 6 m cantilever wall, retaining a 2:1 slope, 8.5 m high in compacted silty clay

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Dec 17, 2020 Up to a 50% reduction in dynamic lateral earth pressure for flexible cantilever earth retaining walls has also been reported in a recent experimental study by Ertugrul et al. 47 Similar 1‐g shaking table tests carried out by Reddy and Krishna 50 exhibited even higher reductions (by about 70‐80%). Such reductions were achieved by adding

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Shaking table tests were performed on six geosynthetic-reinforced soil retaining wall (GRS-RWs)models.Thegeogridreinforcement length, wall height, wall facing type, wall slope, and input

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Apr 01, 2015 The seismic behavior of reinforced soil retaining walls with polymeric strips is examined. A series of 1-g shaking table tests were employed on 80 cm high reinforced-soil wall models. Also, some uniaxial tensile and pullout tests were performed in reduced-scale models to determine the best material to be used instead of polymeric strips in models. The effect of the length

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performed a series of shaking table tests on relatively small-scale models of geosynthetic reinforced soil retaining walls (GRS-RW) with full height rigid facing and conventional type (gravity, leaning and cantilever types) retaining walls. Ling et al. (2005) presented experimental study of the earthquake

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Jul 14, 2017 A series of shaking table tests were designed and conducted to study the seismic performance of an inverted T-shape cantilever retaining wall with an anti-sliding tooth at the base using EPS composite soil as backfills. For comparison, the same wall model retaining Nanjing fine sand was simultaneously excited

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A series of reduced-scale shaking table tests and numerical simulation studies were carried out at the Royal Military College (RMC) of Canada to investigate the response of reinforced soil retaining walls to base acceleration. The wall models were 1 m high by 1.4 m wide by 2.4 m long and were constructed with a uniform sand backfill

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geometries or loading condition. Shaking table studies were carried out in order to study the dynamic behaviour of gravity retaining walls resting on rigid foundation soil. Two different system have been taken into consideration namely, a wall retaining a horizontal backfill on which

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This paper presents the results of shaking table tests on models of rigid-faced reinforced soil retaining walls in which reinforcement materials of different tensile strength were used

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Feb 01, 2020 In this paper, a 1 g shaking table test was carried out on a reinforced soil retaining wall model using a stepped-amplitude harmonic base acceleration record (Matsuo et al., 1998; El-Emam and Bathurst, 2007; Tatsuoka et al., 2009). The accuracy of current pseudo-static analysis methods was examined against time histories of acceleration, incremental earth pressure and inertial force in the

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the results from a series of the shaking table model tests, the seismic behaviors of the geogrid reinforced soil retaining walls with embedded sheetpile were investigated. In addition, results from the shaking table model test on retaining walls reinforced with large diameter soil nailings (LDNs), which are currently

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