AASHTO bridge design specifications were updated this year, with the largest change to designs for Mechanically-Stabilized Earth (MSE) walls in more than 20 years. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, October 8, 2020 from […]
Republished from the ER-2010 conference, this paper by Michael R. Simac and David J. Elton describes the performance of two of the first geosynthetic reinforced soil walls for integral bridge abutment construction in North America […]
The ARES wall system is a geosynthetic reinforced MSE wall with a concrete panel facing. Most concrete panel systems use metallic reinforcement. On this project, the on-site backfill soil did not meet electrochemical requirements for […]