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6. For the sites where reinforced and unreinforced soil retaining structures
were found, a better performance was achieved for the reinforced soil
structures.
The information obtained from the post-earthquake investigation is
invaluable for the verification and improvement of seismic design procedure. A
post-earthquake analysis will soon be available in a Ling and Leshchinsky
study called Failure Analysis of Module-Block Reinforced Soil Walls During
Earthquake (submitted, 2003).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
(Grant no. CMS-0084449) with Dr Richard J. Fragaszy as the Program Director.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this
material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the
National Science Foundation. The source of all seismic information included in
this paper was from the Seismology Center, Central Weather Bureau (CWB),
Taipei, Taiwan.
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