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Site Monitoring of the Retaining Wall Reinforced by Geogrids with Block Type Facings (지오그리드 보강토 옹벽의 계측평가)

  • Kim, Jin-Man;Lee, Dae-Young;Ma, Sang-Joon
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.106-114
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    • 2006
  • Uses of geosynthetics as a reinforcing material for earth structures have ever increased due to their excellent economy. fine external appearance. and easy construction. In the current practice of geosynthetics. however, the lacks of the standardized method of evaluating the soil/geosynthetics friction properties and the inconsistency of conventional design methods develop confusion to the civil engineers. The purpose of site monitoring of the retaining wall reinforced by geogrids was to evaluate the applicability of existing design methods to, and performance of. CHAMSTONE wall system. Full scale field performance during and after construction was monitored by incorporating instrumentation including strain gauges on the geogrid and soil pressure cells. The difference of the reinforcing effects of geosynthetics embedded in the soil will be also investigated by comparing of the line and curve types of retaining wall reinforced by geogrids with block type facings.