Abstract
Geotextile-confined soil wall is a stable retaining structure which is layered a confined soil layers by using geotextile. Since the structure of the wall does not require a friction resistances of geotextile and soil, the width of the wall becomes slender than that of the geotextile reinforced soil wall. Although many of the walls constructed in the past have not damaged by an earthquake, the seismic behavior of the wall is not clarified. Authors carried out the shaking table test to evaluate the seismic performance of the wall. The characteristics of the wall obtained from this test are as follows; 1) the wall behaves integrally and the overturning mode becomes conspicuous at the failure, 2) the stability of the wall can be evaluated from stability analysis of the seismic coefficient method.
