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Apparatus and instruments for the laboratory study of multi–anchored flexible retaining walls
Author(s) -
KURDI I. I.,
Jordan Amman,
HANNA T. H.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
strain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.477
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1475-1305
pISSN - 0039-2103
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-1305.1974.tb00088.x
Subject(s) - retaining wall , thrust , structural engineering , engineering , base (topology) , bending moment , shearing (physics) , bending , geotechnical engineering , shear wall , geology , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Details are presented of the apparatus and instruments developed for the study of the behaviour of laboratory scale multi–anchored flexible retaining walls. The instruments enabled measurements to be made of the earth pressures on and the bending moments in very flexible walls. The shearing and thrust forces at wall base level and the individual anchor wire loads, as well as the movements of the wall and the retained sand, were also monitored throughout a simulated wall construction sequence.