2007 Volume 72 Issue 620 Pages 93-100
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the shear performance of mud walls with various openings based on their load carrying mechanism. The load-deformation behavior of various 1P and 2P mud walls, calculated by the data on the three kinds of component test, showed good agreement with the experimental result up to its maximum load. Then, the simplified equations were contrived to estimate their stiffness and ultimate strength. The calculated values by these equations agreed well with experimental results, and thus the proposed equations were shown to be useful for estimating the principal shear performance of such mud walls.
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