RT Journal Article
T1 Behavior of expanded polystyrene as lightweight filler in retaining walls with intermediate slabs
A1 Dávila Martín, José Miguel
A1 Fortes Garrido, Juan Carlos
A1 Jaramillo-Morilla, Antonio
A1 Torre Sánchez, María Luisa de la
A1 Pancho Custodio, Rocio
AB The present study explores a retaining wall with an intermediate slab. To reduce the lateral earth pressure on the wall, the substitution of part of the soil by blocks of expanded polystyrene (EPS) with high density is proposed, which could result in significant economic savings. Also, the possibility of building the wall elevation with smaller thickness (preexisting wall reinforcement) will be analyzed. To do this, the situation and optimum geometry of the EPS blocks will be studied in detail, besides a study of two scaled models, one without EPS and another with blocks with rectangular distribution. The obtained results allow us to affirm that the reduction in pressure is very significant if the blocks are arranged with the proper geometry and situation over the sliding plane but without eliminating the beneficial effect of the weight of the ground located over the slab.
PB Argentinean Association of Computational Mechanics
SN 1679-7825
YR 2019
FD 2019-01-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17603
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17603
LA eng
NO J. M. Davila, J. C. Fortes, A. Jaramillo-Morilla, M. de la Torre, R. Pancho, "Behavior of expanded polystyrene as lightweight filler in retaining walls with intermediate slabs", Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 16, pp. 1-15 (2019), ISSN: 1679-7825
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026