Static Response of Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls with Modular Block Facing

Effect of backfill compaction, reinforcement connection type, geogrid-soil interface properties, and facing inclination on static response of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Walls (GRSW), was investigated using finite difference method. The numerical simulation of wall was included sequential construction of the wall. Backfill soil was modeled with Elastic-plastic Mohr–Coulomb model and modular block was modeled with elastic model. Results include the facing displacement, maximum load reinforcement and lateral earth pressure. Numerical results show the magnitude of lateral displacement decrease with increasing facing inclination and compaction load, the maximum reinforcement load increased significantly with an increase in compaction load. It was found that finite difference procedure was able to simulate the static response of GRS wall very well

Keywords:

Reinforced soil walls , Numerical models , Reinforcement , FLAC 3D