Best Practices for Zero Retaining Wall Failures - Increasing Global Stability Options

If your retaining wall has global stability concerns, there are several things you can try to improve the stability:

• Increasing the length of the geogrid layers to force the minimum slip arcs deeper into the hillside.
• Increasing the depth of buried block to force the minimum slip arcs deeper into the hillside.
• Increasing the strength of the geosynthetic reinforcement layers to force the minimum slip arcs deeper into the hillside.
• Increasing the friction angle of the infill soil will increase the soil’s shear resistance which will increase stability. (ref. BP, Chapter 9.3)

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