Location
Chicago, Illinois
Date
02 May 2013, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Abstract
Recently new highway, motorway and railway projects take place in many developing countries within the aggressive infrastructure investment programme of governments. In rugged topography, engineers face the challenging problems of designing safe and cost effective cuts and fills for these projects especially under seismic loading and marginal stability conditions. Overall stability mechanism and safety of the cut generally controls the design decisions for the relevant section. In addition, because of the construction width limitations, in some mechanically stabilized earth wall projects sufficient width to accommodate the strip lengths of the retaining system cannot be provided. To eliminate all these problems, to minimize cut and backfill volumes and provide an innovative solution in such difficult terrains, soil nailing is implemented in the cut side together with the mechanically stabilized earth wall in the fill side together both are being flexible earth retaining structures. In addition, soil nails could be designed in such configuration and length that nails will also contribute to overall stability conditions of the cut slope. Furthermore, implementation of the system brings the advantage of reduction of both cut and fills volumes, therefore more cost effective and safer design. This paper presents application of this system in a recent case study, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
7th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2013 Missouri University of Science and Technology, 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
Durgunoglu, H. Turan; Sahin, Ahmet; and Akcakal, Onder, "A Case Study on the Use of Flexible Earth Retaining Structure In Instable Slopes" (2013). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 58.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/7icchge/session03/58
A Case Study on the Use of Flexible Earth Retaining Structure In Instable Slopes
Chicago, Illinois
Recently new highway, motorway and railway projects take place in many developing countries within the aggressive infrastructure investment programme of governments. In rugged topography, engineers face the challenging problems of designing safe and cost effective cuts and fills for these projects especially under seismic loading and marginal stability conditions. Overall stability mechanism and safety of the cut generally controls the design decisions for the relevant section. In addition, because of the construction width limitations, in some mechanically stabilized earth wall projects sufficient width to accommodate the strip lengths of the retaining system cannot be provided. To eliminate all these problems, to minimize cut and backfill volumes and provide an innovative solution in such difficult terrains, soil nailing is implemented in the cut side together with the mechanically stabilized earth wall in the fill side together both are being flexible earth retaining structures. In addition, soil nails could be designed in such configuration and length that nails will also contribute to overall stability conditions of the cut slope. Furthermore, implementation of the system brings the advantage of reduction of both cut and fills volumes, therefore more cost effective and safer design. This paper presents application of this system in a recent case study, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
