Abstract:Masonry retaining walls are designed to resist lateral forces. Their stability is essentially warranted by the correct determination of the failure surface geometry. Accordingly, this study intended to investigate the influence of wall and backfill properties that control failure surface geometry of cohesionless backfills. For this purpose, the discrete element method (DEM) is utilized, and a series of parametric studies were conducted. As the wall-joint parameters reflect the mortar quality of the blocks that… Show more
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