Assesment of deformation of a reinforced soil structure

Deformations of a 13 m wall of reinforced soil were measured during the wall construction at three levels along the wall height by the use of sliding deformeters with tubes 12 m to 18 m long. These deformations are compared to calculated values obtained by incorporating a special constitutive relationship for soil into the computer program FLAC. Nonlinear behaviour of the soil and the reinforcement were taken into account in the numerical analysis.