A Critical Review of Full-Scale Shaking Table Tests Conducted on Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls - Reinforced Soil Engineering: Advances in Research and Practice - page 481

Table 2 Input Acceleration During Testing of Multianchored Retaining Wall

Step test * Wall height (m) Sweep test Input earthquake

3 0.5-10 Hz (20 gal) 1.5, 2 Hz (50-150 gal) -

4 0.5-10 Hz (20 gal) 1.5, 2 Hz (50-150 gal) -

5 0.5-10 Hz (20 gal) 1.5, 2 Hz (50-150 gal) Taft (EW) 180 gal

Source: Aoyama et al., 2000.
*No information given about the increment of acceleration.

The displacement at the top of facing was 25 mm for an input acceleration
of 150 gal. It was symmetrical in the front and back of the facing. Residual
deformation was rather small, in the order of a few mm (Fig. 4) .
The tensile stress in the reinforcements under static and seismic loading
conditions is shown in Fig. 5 . The stress increased in response to the seismic
loading. The exact magnitude was not reported in Futaki et al. (1996).

Figure 1 Instrumentation layout. (From Futaki et al., 1996.)