Analysis of Extensible Reinforcement Subject to Oblique Pull
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Volume 135, Issue 5
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A rational analysis of extensible sheet reinforcement subjected to an oblique end force has been presented that properly accounts for complex soil-reinforcement interaction and involves stress-deformation relationship implicitly. The results can be used for internal design of geosynthetic reinforced soil walls against pullout failure and tension failure. The pullout force and the end displacement at pullout for an extensible reinforcement are found to be almost the same as those for an inextensible reinforcement if the ratio of the reinforcement stiffness to the axial pullout capacity is greater than 15. With decrease in below 15, the maximum strain increases, the pullout failure becomes irrelevant, the tension failure dominates and the maximum allowable oblique force decreases. A minimum stiffness of about 25 times the axial pullout capacity is required to avoid the tension failure before the pullout provided the failure strain is 0.1. The predicted results have been calibrated against the finite-element analysis of pullout tests and detailed back analyses of published test data on model reinforced walls constructed with a wide range of extensible materials. The present analysis gives better predictions of the critical height against the pullout and the tension failure in model reinforced soil walls constructed with extensible reinforcements as compared to that of Rankine’s method.
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Received: May 6, 2007
Accepted: Aug 15, 2008
Published online: May 1, 2009
Published in print: May 2009
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