NCHRP Report 556:

Design and Construction Guidelines for Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Bridge Abutments with a Flexible Facing

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Size: 152 pages, 8.5 x 11

Publication Year:2006

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Jonathan T H Wu; Kevin Z Z Lee; Sam B Helwany; Kanop Ketchart; Transportation Research Board
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 556: Design and Construction Guidelines for Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Bridge Abutments with a Flexible Facing, presents the findings of research undertaken to develop a rational design method and construction guidelines for using geosynthetic-reinforced ...
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Front Matter	i-ix
Summary	1-7	(skim)
Problem Statement	8-8	(skim)
Research Objective	9-9	(skim)
Research Approach	10-10	(skim)
Findings from Literature Study	11-24	(skim)
The NCHRP Full-Scale Experiments	25-40	(skim)
Findings from the Analytical Study	41-95	(skim)
Assessment of the NCHRP Test Abutments	96-97	(skim)
Recommended Design Method	98-110	(skim)
Recommended Construction Guidelines	111-114	(skim)
Design Examples	115-128	(skim)
Conclusions	129-129	(skim)
Suggested Research	130-130	(skim)
References	131-132	(skim)
Appendix A - Review of Construction Guidelines for GRS Walls	133-140	(skim)
Appendix B - Brief Description of DYNA3D and LS-DYNA	141-142	(skim)
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications	143-143	(skim)

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 556: Design and Construction Guidelines for Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Bridge Abutments with a Flexible Facing, presents the findings of research undertaken to develop a rational design method and construction guidelines for using geosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS) systems in bridge abutments. The report includes two appendixes. A third appendix, "Verification of the Analytical Model, " is available as NCHRP Web-Only Document 81.

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Design and Construction Guidelines for Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Bridge Abutments with a Flexible Facing

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