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Strechers
Backfill
(a)
(b)
(c)
Metal strips
Panels
Select
backfill
Select
backfill
Random
backfill
Compacted
select
fill
(d)
(e)
(f)
Select
backfill
(g)
(h)
(i)
FIGURE 9.125
Various types of retaining walls: (a) rock-filled buttress; (b) gabion wall; (c) crib wall; (d) reinforced earth wall;
(e) concrete gravity wall; (f) concrete-reinforced semigravity wall; (g) cantilever wall; (h) counterfort wall; (i)
anchored curtain wall.
FIGURE 9.126
Reinforced earth walls over 100 ft in combined height support roadway fill, I-26, Sams Gap, Tennessee.
