Abstract
The reinforced earth embankment has a brilliant performance on the resistance to seismic loadings, but the additional settlement of reinforced earth embankment would result from the liquefaction of sandy foundation. Therefore, three centrifuge shaking table tests were performed to study the seismic behaviour of reinforced earth embedment on liquefiable and non-liquefiable sand deposits. From the test results, it was observed that the liquefaction would not occur easily under the GRE embankment. But the deep soil layer away from the GRE embankment would liquefy and the shear wave could not propagate up to the soil completely. The largest settlement occurred at the centre of GRE embankment. After 1 Hz seismic event, the maximum settlements normalized by the embankment height were about 0.11, 2.78, and 25.18 % for the dry, water-saturated non-liquefied and liquefied models, respectively.
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The authors would like to express their gratitude for the financial and technical supports from the National Science Council (NSC 101-2221-E-492-027 and NSC 102-2221-E-008-116). These supports make this study and the future researches possible.
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Hung, WY., Lee, CJ. (2017). Seismic Response of Geosynthetic Reinforced Earth Embankment on Different Soil Foundation. In: Hazarika, H., Kazama, M., Lee, W. (eds) Geotechnical Hazards from Large Earthquakes and Heavy Rainfalls. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56205-4_7
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