Abstract
Performance evaluation of railway retaining walls is conventionally conducted by visual inspection. This is because there is no quantified evaluation of the railway retaining walls in the present. Therefore, to evaluate the performance of the retaining walls, the performance evaluation test by using a small shaking devise was proposed with reference to the conventionally used percussion test for the performance evaluation of bridge piers. From results of the L-shaped retaining wall and full-scaled reinforced retaining wall model tests, a natural frequency of the retaining walls depends on earth pressure and bearing capacity. Consequently, the natural frequency of the rigid facing can be used for the performance evaluation of the L-shaped and reinforced retaining walls.
