TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 611: Seismic Analysis and Design of Retaining Walls, Buried Structures, Slopes, and Embankments explores analytical and design methods for the seismic design of retaining walls, buried structures, slopes, and embankments. The Final Report is organized into two volumes. NCHRP Report 611 is Volume 1 of this study. Volume 2, which is only available online, presents the proposed specifications, commentaries, and example problems for the retaining walls, slopes and embankments, and buried structures.
The appendices to NCHRP Report 611 are available online and include the following:
A. Working Plan
B. Design Margin—Seismic Loading of Retaining Walls
C. Response Spectra Developed from the USGS Website
D. PGV Equation—Background Paper
E. Earthquake Records Used in Scattering Analyses
F. Generalized Limit Equilibrium Design Method
G. Nonlinear Wall Backfill Response Analyses
H. Segrestin and Bastick Paper
I. MSE Wall Example for AASHTO ASD and LRFD Specifications
J. Slope Stability Example Problem
K. Nongravity Cantilever Walls
View information about the TRB Webinar on Report 611: Seismic Analysis and Design of Retaining Walls, Buried Structures, Slopes, and Embankments: Wednesday, February 17, 2010
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2008. Seismic Analysis and Design of Retaining Walls, Buried Structures, Slopes, and Embankments. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/14189.
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Front Matter | i-viii | |
Chapter 1 - Introduction | 1-9 | |
Chapter 2 - Data Collection and Review | 10-17 | |
Chapter 3 - Problems and Knowledge Gaps | 18-25 | |
Chapter 4 - Work Plan: Analytical Methodologies | 26-34 | |
Chapter 5 - Seismic Ground Motions | 35-54 | |
Chapter 6 - Height-Dependent Seismic Coefficients | 55-67 | |
Chapter 7 - Retaining Walls | 68-95 | |
Chapter 8 - Slopes and Embankments | 96-104 | |
Chapter 9 - Buried Structures | 105-130 | |
Chapter 10 - Recommendations for Future Work | 131-133 | |
References | 134-136 | |
Appendices | 137-137 | |
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications | 138-138 |
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