Large-Scale Reinforced Clay Walls Backfilled with Clay at Cheng Kung University - Reinforced Soil Engineering: Advances in Research and Practice - page 190

Figure 5 In-lab compaction curves and permeability coefficients of clay with various
clod size distributions.

safety is defined as (Fig. 7)

S cl i þ½

W i ð 1 2 r u Þ seca i tanf

ð 1 þ tana i tanf = F s

F s ¼

ð Þ

1

S ð W i sina i 2 T i cosa i Þ

Table 3 Water Contents and Relative Degree Compaction of the Test
Embankment

r d (g/cm 3 ) Section v(%) targeted v(%) measured R.C. (%)

1 Air-dried 8.5 1.64 83.6

2 11.4 12.6 1.60 81.6

3 14.0 14.5 1.80 91.8

4 11.4 12.7 1.74 88.8