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The beneficial effect of incorporating tensile inclusions within a soil mass is well recognized and has been demonstrated by the successful construction of numerous reinforced soil walls using facings ranging from relatively rigid full face concrete panels to a flexible geotextile “skin”, and reinforcement ranging from relatively stiff steel strips or meshes to geotextile sheets of low stiffness. Design methods for reinforced-soil walls (which are discussed in detail in other papers at this workshop) are typically based on limit equilibrium calculations which do not explicitly consider deformations or interaction between the inclusion and the soil.
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Rowe, R.K., Ho, S.K. (1988). Application of Finite Element Techniques to the Analysis of Reinforced Soil Walls. In: Jarrett, P.M., McGown, A. (eds) The Application of Polymeric Reinforcement in Soil Retaining Structures. NATO ASI Series, vol 147. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1405-6_19
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