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Lookup NU author(s): Akram (PGR) Abd, Professor Stefano Utili
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© 2017 The Authors. Currently, geosynthetic reinforcements are calculated assuming the backfill to be purely frictional. However, accounting for the presence of even a modest amount of cohesion may allow using locally available cohesive backfills to a greater extent and less overall reinforcement. Unlike purely frictional backfills, cohesive soils present are subject to the formation of cracks that tend to reduce slope stability which therefore need to be properly accounted for in any slope stability assessment. Utili & Abd [1] derived a semi-analytical method for uniform c-aor1ø slopes accounting for the presence of cracks that provides the amount of reinforcement needed as a function of soil cohesion, tensile strength, angle of shearing resistance and slope inclination employing the limit analysis upper bound method. In this paper the formulation is extended to the seismic case, accounting for earthquake action by employing the pseudo-static approach. Ready to use design charts providing the value of the required reinforcement are plotted for both uniform and linearly increasing reinforcement distributions. From the results it emerges that accounting for the presence of cohesion allows significant savings to be made, but the presence of seismic action may require considerable additional reinforcement.
Author(s): Abd AH, Utili S
Editor(s): Andrei Petriaev and Anastasia Konon
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference Transportation Geotechnics and Geoecology (TGG-2017)
Year of Conference: 2017
Pages: 898-907
Online publication date: 26/05/2017
Acceptance date: 02/04/2016
Date deposited: 06/07/2017
ISSN: 1877-7058
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.05.140
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2017.05.140
Series Title: Procedia Engineering
