Reinforced earth an investigative model study / Shuib Alias and Azman Abd. Rahman

Reinforced earth is a relatively new material which has only being used commercially recently. The introduction of reinforcing element in the earth changes its character and treated apart from reinforcing concrete. An attempt has been made to study the behaviour of reinforced earth in the laboratory. Amodel tank of size 87cm x 160 cm x 90 cm was fabricated and a 3 mm thick galvanized iron sheet of dimension 87 cm x 83 cm was used as model wall. The wall was made to rotate at the bottom by placing in a pre-made grove in order to assimilate the Rankine condition of rotation about the bottom.