Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls as Important Permanent Structures 1996 - 1997 Mercer Lecture. Issue 2 (1997)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tatsuoka, F.; Tateyama, M.; Uchimura, T.; Koseki, J.
• Is Part Of: Geosynthetics international. Volume 4:Issue 2(1997)
• Page Start: 81
• Page End: 136
• Publication Date: 1997
• Subjects: Geosynthetic -- Reinforced soil retaining wall -- Full-height rigid facing -- Staged construction -- Case histories -- Railway -- Highway -- Bridge abutment and pier -- Permanent structure; Geosynthetics -- Periodicals; Geosynthetics; Periodicals; 624.1892
• DOI: 10.1680/gein.4.0090
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1072-6349

Abstract

Abstract : During the past decade, more than 26 km of geosynthetic-reinforced soil retaining walls (GRS-RWs) with full-height rigid (FHR) facings were constructed in Japan as important permanent structures mainly for railways and occasionally for highways. These include retaining walls for embankments, bridge abutments, a wall backfilled with a nearly saturated clay constructed on a thick soft clay deposit, a wall that survived a very severe earthquake, and walls constructed to support bullet train tracks. The full-height rigid facings are cast in place using staged construction procedures. A new method of stiffening reinforced soil by vertical preloading and prestressing is also described.