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<p>Observations of the performance of basement walls and retaining structures in recent earthquakes show that failures of basement or deep excavation walls in earthquakes are rare even if the structures were not designed for the actual intensity of the earthquake ...
Reference: STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TECHNICAL REPORT 65A0367
<p>Observations of the performance of many different types of retaining structures in recent earthquakes show that failures of retaining structures, including braced excavation supports and basement walls, are rare even if the structures were not designed ...
Reference: STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TECHNICAL REPORT 65A0367
<p>The Riverside large deep excavation of Shanghai international passenger center was 800m long and 100&ndash;150m wide with the depth of 13 m. The south long side of the deep excavation was at a distance of 4.6m from the parallel flood wall of Huangpu River. ...
Reference: Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground – Ng, Huang & Liu (eds), © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London
<p>In this study, firstly, a series of field monitoring data on earth pressure in soft clay, hard clay and sand ground are analyzed respectively. In the soft clay ground, the earth pressure fluctuated with backfill grouting pressure at first, it settled down ...
Reference: Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground – Ng, Huang & Liu (eds), © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London
<p>In shield tunneling, the excavation stability is very important. The balance pressure which supports the work face is offered by the the mucks in the earth chamber. The ideal supporting pressure on the excavation face is trapezoidal. In fact, the pressure ...
Reference: Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground – Ng, Huang & Liu (eds), © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London
 
<p>The purpose of this document is to provide an acceptable design method and theory for the geotechnical design of flexible cantilevered or anchored retaining walls to be constructed on New York State Department of Transportation projects.</p> <p><br />The ...
Reference: GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN PROCEDURE GDP-11 Revision #3
<p>The horizontal arching mechanism transfers horizontal earth pressures acting on flexible retaining wall panels to stiffer neighbouring elements via soil shear stresses. In this research, the horizontal arching mechanism and lateral displacements of fixed ...
Reference: Physical Modelling in Geotechnics-6th ICPMG '06 - Ng, Zhang & Wang (eds) 2006
The most useful tool for deciding which soils can be dentified by dynamic methods is the cone penetration test. Based on the CPT data, variation of the coefficient of earth pressure in normally consolidated and overconsolidated soil and effect of soil compaction ...
Reference: "Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3., pp. 695-709"
The design of a Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil (GRS) wall for internal stability against pullout failure requires computing the reinforcement embedment length. Therefore, the location of failure plane is an important input for this design. The current FHWA MSE ...
Reference: Journal of GeoEngineering, Vol. 6, No. 1, April, 2011
<p>This document presents state-of-the-practice information on the design and installation of cementgrouted ground anchors and anchored systems for highway applications. The anchored systems discussed include flexible anchored walls, slopes supported using ...
Reference: Federal Highway Administration, FHWA-IF-99-015, 1999