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The Reinforced earth is one of the solutions that can be used for retaining earth. The picture shows an example from Egnatia Odos, Greece. At the top of the retaining wall is founded the opposite direction of the traffic on the highway.
As suggested by David H. Barker, Nottingham Trent University, this hexagonal shape of facing panel has been used by the West Yorkshire/Jones System in the 1980's - but it must have been adopted by others by now.
Reference:
Joseph, E. Bowles, Foundation Analysis and Design, McGraw-Hill, 1997 edition.
Texts by: Dimitris P. Zekkos & David H. Barker, Faculty of Construction, Computing & Technology, Nottingham Trent University
Photos by: Dimitris P. Zekkos.
Figure 1: View of the reinforced earth. On the top of the wall is also a road.
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