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 ...

Abstract: The paper demonstrates load and resistance factor design (LRFD) calibration for tensile strength, connection strength, pullout, and soil failure internal stability limit states for polyester strap mechanically stabilized ...

Abstract: This paper demonstrates reliability-based analysis of tensile strength and pullout limit states for mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls constructed with steel-strip reinforcement. Five different reinforcement tensile ...