USE OF GEO-ANCHOR TO IMPROVE THE STABILITY OF RETAINING WALL
BY
CHIONG SWEE HUA
ABSTRACT
Landslide in residual soils or weathered rocks are generally rain induced and shallow. After a heavy rainstorm, or a series of heavy rainstorms, the soil becomes saturated or almost saturated because of the infiltration of rainwater into in the ground, so the negative pore pressure originally present in the soil are eliminated or drastically reduced, causing a large reduction in the effective stress and of the shear strength. The slope may then become unstable and may fail.
There
are many methods used for the stabilitisation of
slope, embankments constructed on soft clay and of retaining walls. These
methods may be adopted singly or in combination. The choice depends primarily
on the cost and the consequences of failure. The following methods below are
the commonly used slope stabilisation methods in
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Diploma in Civil Engineering
August 1998
Number: Volume VII