Mechanically Stabilized Earth MSE Walls Applications: Review

The pullout resistance of reinforcement, such as geogrids in mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls, includes the skin friction between the soil and solid geogrid surfaces. It also includes the bearing resistance against the transverse ribs, which has a greater influence on the production of pullout resistance. Taking the current limitations involved in producing woven polyester geogrids into consideration (i.e., the limited thickness of the transverse ribs), the amount of bearing resistance developed in front of transverse ribs is limited in the pullout mechanism. Thus, along with introducing an innovative and applied system, this research has endeavoured to demonstrate the effective performance of this new system in increasing the passive resistance — and thereby the pullout resistance — of standard geogrids. This new system, which is formed by adding steel transverse elements (a set of steel equal angles) to the ordinary polyester geogrids by means of nuts and bolts, is called an anchored geogrid (AG). The experimental results show that a spacing-to-height ratio of transversal elements equal to 5 gives the maximum pullout resistance for a polyester AG system in sandy soil used in the study. With an optimum arrangement, this system is capable of increasing the pullout resistance of the ordinary geogrid system by 65%. In addition, based on the plasticity solution, the pullout bearing failure mechanisms of a single isolated transverse element in the polyester AG system depend on overburden pressures.

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Mechanically Stabilized Earth with Steel Reinforcement

FES Journal of Engineering Sciences ◽

10.52981/fjes.v9i3.707 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 135-141

Author(s):

Magdi M. E. Zumrawi ◽

Abubaker B. B. Barakat ◽

Idris M. I. Abdalla ◽

Rabab A. A. Altayeb

Keyword(s):

Retaining Wall ◽

Soil Reinforcement ◽

Current Status ◽

Mechanically Stabilized Earth ◽

Steel Strips ◽

Wall Structures ◽

Backfill Soil ◽

Mse Walls ◽

Mechanically Stabilized

This paper presents the Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) technique as a practical option for earth retaining wall structures. The literature pertaining soil reinforcement methods and their application in MSE walls were intensively reviewed. The present work focused on evaluating the performance of MSE walls with backfill soil reinforced by steel strips. Almolid square overpass bridge in Khartoum, which was constructed in 2015 with MSE walls as lateral support of the overpass ramps, was considered as case study. Based on field observations, the current status of the overpass bridge has proven that the use of MSE walls is successful and beneficial for sustainability of the overpass.

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Full-scale mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls under strip footing load

Geotextiles and Geomembranes ◽

10.1016/j.geotexmem.2017.12.002 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 46 (3) ◽

pp. 297-311 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Hamzeh Ahmadi ◽

Adam Bezuijen

Keyword(s):

Full Scale ◽

Strip Footing ◽

Mechanically Stabilized Earth ◽

Mse Walls ◽

Mechanically Stabilized

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Look Out Below! Potential Pitfalls and Suggested Improvements in the Design and Construction of Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) Walls

Forensic Engineering 2012 ◽

10.1061/9780784412640.068 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Scott J. DiFiore ◽

Bryan P. Strohman

Keyword(s):

Mechanically Stabilized Earth ◽

Mse Walls ◽

Mechanically Stabilized ◽

Design And Construction

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Mobile LiDAR for Scalable Monitoring of Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls with Smooth Panels

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app10134480 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (13) ◽

pp. 4480

Author(s):

Abdulla Al-Rawabdeh ◽

Mohammed Aldosari ◽

Darcy Bullock ◽

Ayman Habib

Keyword(s):

Data Acquisition ◽

Performance Measures ◽

Visual Inspection ◽

Precast Concrete ◽

Point Clouds ◽

Mechanically Stabilized Earth ◽

Qualitative Approaches ◽

Transportation Corridors ◽

Mse Walls ◽

Mechanically Stabilized

Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls rely on its weight to resist the destabilizing earth forces acting at the back of the reinforced soil area. MSE walls are a common infrastructure along national and international transportation corridors as they are low-cost and have easy-to-install precast concrete panels. The usability of such transportation corridors depends on the safety and condition of the MSE wall system. Consequently, MSE walls have to be periodically monitored according to prevailing transportation asset management criteria during the construction and serviceability life stages to ensure that their predictable performance measures are met. To date, MSE walls are monitored using qualitative approaches such as visual inspection, which provide limited information. Aside from being time-consuming, visual inspection is susceptible to bias due to human subjectivity. Manual and visual inspection in the field has been traditionally based on the use of a total station, geotechnical field instrumentation, and/or static terrestrial laser scanning (TLS). These instruments can provide highly accurate and reliable performance measures; however, their underlying data acquisition and processing strategies are time-consuming and not scalable. The proposed strategy in this research provides several global and local serviceability measures through efficient processing of point cloud data acquired by a mobile LiDAR system (MLS) for MSE walls with smooth panels without the need for installing any targets. An ultra-high-accuracy vehicle-based LiDAR data acquisition system has been used for the data acquisition. To check the viability of the proposed methodology, a case study has been conducted to evaluate the similarity of the derived serviceability measures from TLS and MLS technologies. The results of that comparison verified that the MLS-based serviceability measures are within 1 cm and 0.3° of those obtained using TLS and thus confirmed the potential for using MLS to efficiently acquire point clouds while facilitating economical, scalable, and reliable monitoring of MSE walls.

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