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Report of MSE Wall Stability Verification Under Erecting U Girder From P359 To P365
Report of MSE Wall Stability Verification Under Erecting U Girder From P359 To P365
This report consists of 3 main parts such as External Stability, Internal Stability and
Global Stability. All input data are collected from the approved document as follows
I. Construction Design Drawings of RETAINING WALL FROM PIER P348 TO PIER P365 (ref. No. DLM-
IMP-TRE-WVO-L08-90301-B-4B);
II. Construction Design Reports of RETAINING WALL FROM PIER P348 TO PIER P365 (ref. DLM-IMP-
TRE-WVO-L08-90201-E&V-4B);
III. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION FOR MSE WALL SYSTEM (ref. DLM-IMP-TRE-WVO-L08-90202-E&V-
3B).
External Stability
In this section, the reinforced soils in which the polymer strips to be installed is considered as a SOLID
BLOCK. All the loads from retained soils and crane’s trigger will be acting on this block. There are 3 cases
to be checked herewith.
2. Limiting eccentricity
The differences between resistance loads and driving forces causes an eccentricity acting on the
length of soil block. This value to be compared to article 11.6.3.3 AASHTO LRFD.
The conclusion is:
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Internal Stability
In this section, the capacity of polymer strips to be verified by 2 extreme cases tensile and pull out.
Global Stability
As an important stability condition of an earth-wall structure, the global stability verified in this section.
The sliding surfaces are determined with safety factor in 3 methods Ordinary, Bishop and Janbu by
Geotechnical software GEO/Slope 2007. The minimum safety factor in 3 above methods to be compared
to allowable resistance factor in AASHTO LRFD 2007.
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2. Model with reinforced soil block of which cohesion is 50(kN/m2) and angle of internal friction is
900 degrees; foundation soil’s angle of internal friction is 300 degrees.
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Final Conclusion
After carefully studying above, Design team found out only Global Stability has got a problem regarding
the safety factor. It is worth noting that we examined in 2 different models with many parameters.
Nevertheless, all our calculation should be verified and checked by Headquarter as a cross-check.
(For further information, pls check the attachments and Slope file).
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