Location
New York, New York
Date
16 Apr 2004, 8:00am - 9:30am
Abstract
Sesimbra is a village located on the Portuguese West coastline 70 Km South of Lisbon. It is a site of high cliffs, overlooking the sea, mainly formed by clays. The rainwater that penetrates the soil through permeable layers originates the clays sliding. Recent construction site in the area started with the execution of a retaining wall with counterforts. Some time later after a long rainy period the soil sliding created a high earth pressure on the retaining wall that originated the separation between the wall and its counterforts. The paper describes the pathology and its repair.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2004 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
e Silva, J. Matos, "A Case of Soil Sliding in the Pathology of Retaining Structure" (2004). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 3.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/5icchge/session05/3
A Case of Soil Sliding in the Pathology of Retaining Structure
New York, New York
Sesimbra is a village located on the Portuguese West coastline 70 Km South of Lisbon. It is a site of high cliffs, overlooking the sea, mainly formed by clays. The rainwater that penetrates the soil through permeable layers originates the clays sliding. Recent construction site in the area started with the execution of a retaining wall with counterforts. Some time later after a long rainy period the soil sliding created a high earth pressure on the retaining wall that originated the separation between the wall and its counterforts. The paper describes the pathology and its repair.
