Centrifuge Modeling of Seismic Performance of Reinforced Earth Structures - Reinforced Soil Engineering: Advances in Research and Practice - page 416

3 CENTRIFUGE MODEL TEST ON THE SEISMIC
PERFORMANCE OF A GEOGRID REINFORCED SOIL
WALL
This section describes centrifuge model tests on seismic performance of geogrid
reinforced soil wall done at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and presents some
results and discussions on the tests as an example of the application of centrifuge
modeling to this type of problem.
3.1 Test Procedures and Conditions
3.1.1 Test Procedures and Model Preparation
T.I.T. Mark II Centrifuge and servo-hydraulic type shaker (Takemura et al.,
1989) were used in the tests. An aluminum model container with inner sizes of
450mm in width, 150mm in breadth, and 250mm in height was used. Rubber
sheets were placed at both sides of the container for absorbing stress waves from
the side boundaries. The model setup used is shown in Fig. 3.
Figure 3 Model setup for centrifuge tests. (From Takahashi et al., 2001.)