A survey of the state of practice for designing slope erosion control measures within VDOT's nine districts has been conducted. On the basis of the survey, it is clear that there are no specific design procedures currently in use within VDOT for dealing with ...

This paper presents the design for a new patent pending deep soil mixing (DMM) wall system using DSM techniques that utilize an array of soil-cement mixed columns arranged in the native soil in a manner that creates a gravity block. This gravity block resists ...

Limit equilibrium methods are evaluated with respect to their ability to predict failure of geosynthetic reinforced slope models tested in a geotechnical centrifuge. The variables considered in the centrifuge program were the reinforcement spacing, reinforcement ...

A centrifuge testing program was undertaken to investigate the failure mechanisms of geosynthetic reiforced soil slopes and to evaluate the assumptions in their designs.

An evaluation of the use of centrifuge modeling as a tool for analyzing the behavior of reinforced soil slopes is presented in this paper. A review of the state of the art indicates that previous centrifuge studies have focused mainly on the performance of ...

Experimental studies on poorly draining soil-reinforcement interactions were reviewed in a companion paper by Zornberg and Mitchell in 1994, leading to the conclusion that permeable geosynthetic inclusions are useful for reinforcing marginal backfills. This ...

The use and performance of reinforced soil structures constructed with poorly draining and or cohesive backfills is evaluated. This evaluation shows that proper design and construction can result in stable durable and economical earth structures.