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Model Tests on the Behavior of Geogrid Reinforced Soil Walls with Vertical Spacing of Reinforcement Layers  

조삼덕 (한국건설기술연구원 지반연구부)
안태봉 (우송대학교 토목환경공학)
이광우 (한국건설기술연구원 지반연구)
오세용 (한국건설기술연구원 지반연구부)
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.20, no.5, 2004 , pp. 109-116 More about this Journal
Abstract
The model tests are conducted to assess the behavior characteristics of geogrid reinforced soil walls according to different surcharge pressures and reinforcement spacings. The models are built in the box having dimension, 100cm tall, 140cm long, and 100cm wide. The reinforcement used is geogrid(tensile strength 2.26t/m). Decomposed ganite soil(SM) is used as a backfill material. The strain gauges and LVDTs are Installed to obtain the strain in the reinforcements and the displacements of the wall face. From the results, it can be concluded that the more the reinforcement tensile strength increases, the more the wall displacements and the geogrid strains decreases. The maximum wall displacements and geogrid strains of the model walls occur due to the uniform surcharge pressure at the 0.7H from the bottom of the wall. The horizontal displacements of the wall face nonlinearly increase with the increase of surcharge pressures, and this nonlinear behavior is significantly presented for larger surcharge due to the nonlinear tensile strength-strain relationship of the reinforcements.
Keywords
Model test; Reinforced soil wall; Reinforcement spacing; Surcharge load;
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