An Investigation into a Geocell-reinforced Slope in the Unsaturated Numerical Model

Subject Areas : Structural Engineering

Behnam Mehdipour ¹ , Hamid Hashemalhosseini ² , Bahram Nadi ³ , Masoud Mirmohammad Sadeghi ⁴

1 - Department of Civil Engineering , Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University ,Najafabad,Iran
2 - Civil Engineering Department, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Department of Civil Engineering , Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University ,Najafabad,Iran
4 - Faculty of Civil Engineering, Isfahan Higher Education and Research Institute, Isfahan,Iran

Received: 2019-01-02 Accepted : 2019-03-02 Published : 2020-06-01

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