Abstract: This paper presents the results of load and resistance factor design (LRFD) calibration of the facing limit states for soil nail walls. The current AASHTO facing load model and a modified model together with the AASHTO ...

Abstract: Steel bar mat is a common reinforcing material in mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls. The current method to calculate the pullout capacity of these materials is an empirical-based formulation found in AASHTO and ...

Abstract: The construction and surcharge loading response of four full-scale reinforced-soil segmental retaining walls is simulated using the program FLAC. The numerical model implementation is described and constitutive models for ...

Abstract: A general approach for calibration of resistance factors for load and resistance factor design (LRFD) of pullout and tensile failure internal limit states of soil nail walls is presented. The calibration of resistance ...

Abstract: A numerical finite-difference method (FLAC) model was used to investigate the influence of constitutive soil model on predicted response of two full-scale reinforced soil walls during construction and surcharge loading. ...

Abstract: The Simplified Method as reported in AASHTO and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) manuals has been demonstrated to give poor predictions of unfactored reinforcement loads and strains, especially for geosynthetic ...

Abstract: Steel grids in the form of bar mat and welded wire mesh are a common reinforcing material in mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls. This paper uses a large database of laboratory steel grid pullout tests from multiple ...