Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
29 Mar 2001, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Abstract
Psuedo-static stability analysis based on “Coulomb’s one-wedge” and “two-wedge” methods was performed for two geosynthetic-reinforced modular block walls which were either collapsed or lightly damaged during the 1999 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake It was shown that two-wedge failure mechanism is a dominant one for the walls investigated. Difference in the seismic behavior of these walls was partially explained based on the psuedo-static analysis. It was also shown that seismic stability of the reinforced wall depends largely on the connection strength between the facing and the geogrid.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2001 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Huang, Ching-Chuan and Tatsuoka, Fumio, "Stability Analysis of the Geosynthetic-Reinforced Modular Block Walls Damaged During the Chi-Chi Earthquake" (2001). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 14.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/04icrageesd/session07/14
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Stability Analysis of the Geosynthetic-Reinforced Modular Block Walls Damaged During the Chi-Chi Earthquake
San Diego, California
Psuedo-static stability analysis based on “Coulomb’s one-wedge” and “two-wedge” methods was performed for two geosynthetic-reinforced modular block walls which were either collapsed or lightly damaged during the 1999 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake It was shown that two-wedge failure mechanism is a dominant one for the walls investigated. Difference in the seismic behavior of these walls was partially explained based on the psuedo-static analysis. It was also shown that seismic stability of the reinforced wall depends largely on the connection strength between the facing and the geogrid.
