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The T-shape retaining wall element, T-WALL, is a precast modular gravity wall system designed mainly for heavy highway, railway, waterway, and site development applications. It is composed of structurally reinforced, monolithic T-shape precast concrete units and a granular backfill. The surcharge for designing retaining walls supporting highways is usually a uniform load. In case of the railway application, the surcharge on top of the wall is represented by one or multiple strip loads located at different distances from the wall facing. This paper demonstrates the comparison between the results of modeling the surcharge as a single or multiple strip load and undefined uniform load on lateral stress applied to the retaining wall. Then, the sliding and overturning forces of modular elements are investigated at each level separately.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the contribution of Terre Armee group.
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Ghasemali, S.H., Mirmirani, S. (2023). Comparison Between the Results of Strip Loads Surcharge and Undefined Uniform Load on External Stability of a T-Shape Modular Retaining Wall. In: Gupta, R., et al. Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2022. CSCE 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 348. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34159-5_41
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