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MSE Wall – Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls design
The program is used to verify mechanically stabilized earth walls and segmental retaining walls reinforced by geogrids.
Main features
- Built-in database of available georeinforcement (geogrids) – Fortrac, Tensar, Miragrid, KB-grid, Acegrid, Secugrid, Enkagrid
- Simple and clear input of reinforcements, automatic generation of reinforcement position
- Various kinds of slopes: prefabricated blocks at the front face of the wall, simple slope or slope with berms (including optional cover)
- Verification of internal stability - direct sliding of soil block on georeinforcement, tearing and pull out strengths of georeinforcement
- Verification of global stability at circular slip surface (Bishop, Spencer)
- Verification analysis can be performed employing EN 1997-1, LRFD or classical approach (limit states, factor of safety)
- EN 1997 - option to choose partial factors based on National Annexes
- EN 1997 - option to choose all design approaches, consider design situations
- Generally layered soil environment
- Built-in database of soil parameters
- Arbitrary number of analyses in one example
- Multiple construction stages
- Arbitrary number of surcharges applied to structures (strip, trapezoidal, concentrated load)
- Arbitrary number of inserted forces (anchors, safety fences, etc.)
- Modelling of water in front of and behind structures, modelling of artesian water
- General shape of terrain behind the structure
- Berms in front of the structure
- Various types of pressures in front of the structure (at rest, passive, reduced passive)
- Possibility to not consider pressure in the front
- Calculation of earth pressures in effective and total parameters
- Earthquake effects (Mononobe-Okabe, Arrango)
- Verification of fictitious wall against translation and overturning
- Verification of bearing capacity of foundation soil
- Verification of translation and overturning of arbitrary part of the wall (dimensioning)
- Verification of external stability of a wall using program Slope Stability
- Analysis of bearing capacity of foundation soil in program Spread Footing
