Sentence examples for rigid retaining from inspiring English sources

Height of rigid retaining wall, JB.

A vertical rough rigid retaining wall of height, H resting against an inclined cohesionless backfill is considered (Figure 1).

Fang et al. (1997) conducted the experiments on a vertical rigid retaining wall with a sloping backfill.

Usually rigid retaining structures are used in civil works such as retaining walls, bridge abutments and foundations, among others.

Compressible inclusions provide thrust attenuation, static and dynamic, on the back of a nonyielding rigid retaining structure.

Seismic waves from far or mid-far fields must be considered in the seismic designs of geogrid reinforced rigid retaining walls.

However, most of research work reported in the literature is about the behavior of a rigid wall retaining a reinforced backfill, considering rigid foundations.

Consider a rigid cantilever retaining wall with bilinear backface constructed on a rigid bedrock supporting a dry, horizontal and cohesionless backfill as shown in Fig. 2.

Mittal et al. [18] have carried out theoretical analysis and model tests of a rigid wall retaining a reinforced backfill and concluded that, unattached reinforcing strips, embedded in the cohesionless backfill behind a rigid wall are effective in reducing the lateral earth pressure on the wall.

The basement has rigid RC retaining walls continuously interconnected to the frame all around its perimeter.

A rigid wall retaining a reinforced backfill and underlying semi-infinite foundation strata is discretized as discussed in preceding section.