RTRI REPORT Apr. 1998

Behaviors of Retaining Walls by Model Shaking Table Test

Kenichi KOJIMA, Yulman MUNAF
Hideki KIMURA, Masaru TATEYAMA


By the HYOGO-KEN NANBU earthquake in January, 1995, many structures (buildings, railways, roads, e.t.c.) were broken. Recently, civil engineers are studying antiseismic character of civil structures. It is a very important work, and which is also required for earth structures (embankments, retaining walls). We performed shaking table tests to study retaining wall behaviors during earthquake. This paper describes the results of shaking table tests of typical four types of retaining wall.