Soil nailing with flexible structural facing: Design and experiences

Abstract

Officine Maccaferri has developed BIOS, a simplified as well as realistic design approach for the calculation of the flexible structural facing of soil nailing. The approach shows that the most important property of this kind of application is membrane stiffness of the mesh. With the procedure of BIOS is possible to reduce the timing of design and get a cost effective intervention. Anyway the designer judgment is required for a better evaluation of the critical factors like the slope morphology, the admissible displacement and settlement, the presence of water and erosion processes. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.