<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 ...

<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 ...

<p>The component and system reliability based design of bridge abutments under earthquake loading is presented in the paper. Planar failure surface has been used in conjunction with pseudo-dynamic approach to compute seismic active earth pressures on an abutment. ...

<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. ...

<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 ...

<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 ...

<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 ...

<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 ...

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 ...

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 ...