Centrifuge Modeling: A Study of Similarity

by J. Carlos Santamarina And Deborah J. Goodings

Year: 1989

Bibliography

Santamarina, J. C. and Goodings, D. J. (1989). "Centrifuge Modeling: A Study of Similarity." ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 163-166

Abstract

Data are presented of geotechnical centrifuge models of reinforced soil retaining walls in which the effects on wall behavior of differences between prototype and model, boundary effects, stress paths, instrumentation, and model repeatability are studied.

Keywords

centrifuges models reinforced soils scale effects stress paths