PD 6517:1988

Foreword
Committees responsible
0. Introduction
1. Scope
2. What is reinforced soil?
3. Why is reinforced soil useful?
4. Basic principles
5. Applications
5.1 General
5.2 Historical background
5.3 Walls and abutments
5.4 Reinforced slopes
5.5 Foundations
5.6 Summary
6. Need for a code of practice
6.1 General
6.2 Current design standards in the UK
6.3 Future design requirements
7. What will the code cover?
8. Contents of the code
9. Design approaches
9.1 General
9.2 Walls and abutments
9.2.1 Development of wall design
9.2.2 Brief comparison of design approaches
9.3 Slopes
9.4 Foundations
10. Materials and testing
11. Quality control
Appendices
A. Bibliography
B. Proposed contents of proposed code of practice for
     strengthened/reinforced soils and other fills
Tables
1. Walls and abutments constructed
2. Reinforced slopes constructed
Figures
1. Classification of reinforced soil walls and steep
     slopes
2. Ground reinforced prior to construction
3. Ground reinforced during construction
4. Reinforced soil walls
5. Short term stability of basal reinforced embankment
6. Effect of reinforcement on a soil element
7. Horizontal tensile strain increments developed
     during active failure
8. Coulomb and Rankine force methods
9. Trapezoidal and Meyerhof pressure distributions at
     the base of a wall
10. Distribution of tension along stiff reinforcing
     strips
11. Forces and stresses on an element of reinforcement
12. Ladder wall (mur a echelle)
13. Ladder wall dam
14. U-shaped sheet metal faced reinforced soil wall
15. Range of applications of reinforced soils
16. Wall and abutment practice: UK
17. Range of practice of slope construction