Abstract: Two techniques for stability analysis of reinforced soil structures are presented. In the first one, called the continuum approach here, the reinforced soil is first homogenized, and the slip-line method is used to find ...

Abstract: A failure criterion for a composite with a frictional matrix and unidirectionally oriented tensile inclusions is presented. The frictional matrix is comprised of granular material with or without cohesion. An energy-based ...

Abstract: Short fibers have been tried in the past few years as a soil-improvement admixture (reinforcement), yet no failure criteria for fiber-reinforced soils, consistent with numerical methods for solving boundary-value problems, ...