This work aims to be a contribution for a better knowledge of anchored earth retaining structures, providing preliminary guidelines for their correct design, by establishing starting points. It also constitutes the introduction to a second paper in which an innovative solution for preliminary design is presented. Starting from an extensive parametric st...
View ArticleIn a companion paper, an extensive parametric study regarding anchored retaining structures was presented, contributing to better understand the behaviour and most relevant parameters regarding their design. Based on those results, a novel and simple methodology for preliminary design is presented, providing an alternative procedure for preliminary desi...
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