Jonathan T. H. Wu
Author
Publisher
Colorado Department of Transportation, Applied Research and Innovation Branch
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The objective of the study was to validate the performance of blocked-faced Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil (GRS) wall and to validate the Colorado Department of Transportation's (CDOT) decision to waive the positive block connection for closely-spaced reinforcement. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the GRS wall measurements of this study demonstrated that facing pressure decreases as load increases. This counter-intuitive fact is due to the decrease...
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