Behavior of Laterally Loaded Shafts Constructed Behind the Face of a Mechanically Stabilized Earth Block Wall

Current practice for designing laterally loaded columns that pass through an MSE Wall involves isolating the column from the MSE mass and anchoring the column into rock with a rock socket. A sizeable cost and time savings could be realized, while still maintaining reliability, if a method were available to evaluate the lateral load capacity of a column that is supported by the MSE mass with no rock socket. This report describes the construction, instrumentation, and testing of eight different 36" diameter columns solely supported by an MSE mass as well as a brief discussion of the results and recommendations for future testing and analysis. Instrumentation includes 24 pressure cells, 16 inclinometer locations, 112 strain gages, 20 tell tales, 84 photo measurements of the wall facing, and load cells and LVDTs associated with lateral load and response.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Kansas

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Pierson, Matthew Charles

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Parsons, Robert

• Civil engineering
• Shaft
• Mse wall
• Laterally loaded
• Mse block wall
• Columns

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• This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author.

Language dc:language.iso

EN

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http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2506

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/4053