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In recent years reinforced soil retaining structures are both technically and economically various advantages over other retaining structures; especially when their will be property limitation and under poor soil conditions. This thesis presented about the two dimensional numerical analysis of reinforced earth retaining wall models using finite element method analysis program PLAXIS 2D version 8.5.
The walls were constructed with modular block facing unit, reinforcing material /geogrid and different backfill materials on rigid rock foundation. The soil reinforcement comprises different strength and arrangement geogrid reinforcement material. Methods of construction, the wall geometry and boundary conditions were otherwise nominally the same for each of retaining walls. The behavior of the geosynthetically reinforced earth wall at the end of construction and after surcharge load application for different backfill material properties, geogrid lengths, stiffness and spacing‘s were analyzed. |
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