Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Royal Military College of Canada
$38,000.00
Probabilistic analysis and design of reinforced soil walls and modelling of soil-reinforcement interaction using transparent granular soil
FY 2015-16
Summary
Every Canadian is a stakeholder in the safe and cost-effective design of civil engineering infrastructure. Included in this infrastructure are reinforced soil retaining wall structures which are ubiquitous on the Canadian landscape due to their cost-effectiveness compared to traditional retaining wall technologies. However, current design methods are not suited for modern reliability-based design consistent with the approach that has been used by structural engineers to design bridge superstructures and buildings for more than three decades. The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) stated in a recent call for research proposals for ""Geotechnical-based Reliability Design"" that: ""If geotechnical design codes were to take advantage of reliability-based concepts, an overall savings in foundation construction and design costs of roughly $10 million per year could easily be achieved [in Ontario]."" Modern reinforced soil retaining wall structures fall within the foundation category. The long-term impact of the proposed research will be to realize the benefit of reliability-based design concepts applied to this class of structure for all Canadians.
Program
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Recipient
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
194344-2013
Name nom
Bathurst, Richard
Department département
Civil Engineering
Organization id
30
Institution établissement
Royal Military College of Canada
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2015
Competition year année de concours
2013
Award amount
38000
Program id
RGPIN
Program name en
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Program name fr
Programme de subventions à la découverte - individuelles
Group en
Discovery grants programs
Group fr
Programmes de subventions à la découverte
Committee code
1509
Committee name en
Civil, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Committee name fr
Génie civil, industriel et des systèmes
Area of application code
1206
Area of application group en
Advancement of knowledge
Area of application group fr
Avancement des connaissances
Area of application en
Engineering
Area of application fr
Génie
Research subject code
1000
Research subject group en
Civil engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie civil
Research subject en
Civil engineering
Research subject fr
Génie civil
Partie
3
Nb partie
5
Application title
Probabilistic analysis and design of reinforced soil walls and modelling of soil-reinforcement interaction using transparent granular soil
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Every Canadian is a stakeholder in the safe and cost-effective design of civil engineering infrastructure. Included in this infrastructure are reinforced soil retaining wall structures which are ubiquitous on the Canadian landscape due to their cost-effectiveness compared to traditional retaining wall technologies. However, current design methods are not suited for modern reliability-based design consistent with the approach that has been used by structural engineers to design bridge superstructures and buildings for more than three decades. The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) stated in a recent call for research proposals for ""Geotechnical-based Reliability Design"" that: ""If geotechnical design codes were to take advantage of reliability-based concepts, an overall savings in foundation construction and design costs of roughly $10 million per year could easily be achieved [in Ontario]."" Modern reinforced soil retaining wall structures fall within the foundation category. The long-term impact of the proposed research will be to realize the benefit of reliability-based design concepts applied to this class of structure for all Canadians.
