MSE walls using STABL

[cdstan]

Does anyone use STABL and how can I manipulate the program to deal with MSE walls?

 

[bucknell06]

Assuming you want to look at global stability only, you can use failure surface limits to cause the failure to occur outside of reinforced zone.

 

[jdonville]

cdstan,

Assume the MSE mass as a rigid block for global stability. Use limits as stated above to block failure surfaces passing through the MSE mass, or assign high strength parameters to the MSE mass.

Jeff

 

[moe333]

A potential failure surface for global stability can pass through one or more of the reinforcement layers. You would need to use a program that can model the reinforcement layers if you want to do a thorough evaluation. There are some out there that are pretty reasonably priced.