The REINFORCED EARTH WALLS application allows calculating reinforced soil walls using the technique of placing reinforcements, consisting mainly of bars, metal strips, geotextile sheets, or grids, in the backfill soil used to build the wall.
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The design of a reinforced earth wall starts from the consideration that the reinforcements must counteract an active Rankine or Coulomb thrust wedge through the resistance that develops at a depth z from the embankment due to the presence of friction δ between the reinforcement and the soil, and due to the presence of the vertical pressure γz acting on it. It is assumed that the tensile stresses induced on the reinforcement due to the thrust act beyond the extension of the failure wedge.
The verifications provided in the output by the application consist of:
VERIFICATIONS ON THE REINFORCED EARTH WALL
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bearing capacity verification (Hansen’s method);
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sliding verification.
VERIFICATIONS ON THE REINFORCEMENTS
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pull-out verification;
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tensile failure verification.