Dynamic behavior of reinforced soil retaining structures has been
the subject of several researchers for the past three decades
(Richardson and Lee 1975; Cai and Bathurst 1995; Ling et al.
1997; Bathurst and Hatami 1998; Matsuo et al. 1998; Perez and
Holtz 2004; Nova-Roessig and Sitar 2006; Won and Kim 2007;
Huang et al. 2008; Krishna and Latha 2009). Bathurst et al.
(2002) summarized many studies related to seismic aspects of
geosynthetic reinforced soil (GRS) walls and reviewed the work
associated with the properties of cohesionless soil, geosynthetic
reinforcement, and facing components under cyclic loading. As different
types of reinforced soil walls are used in practice, different
researchers worked on different types of walls. Different types of
physical model studies are reported in the literature for seismic and/
or dynamic studies, such as the tilting table test, shaking table test,
dynamic centrifuge test, and full-scale tests. Nova-Roessig and
Sitar (2006) summarized experimental studies of seismic response
of reinforced soil walls and slopes. Recent studies in this area include Perez and Holtz 2004; El Emam and Bathurst 2004; Ling
et al. 2005; Saito et al. 2006; Huang et al. 2008; Krishna and Latha
2007, 2009; Ling et al. 2009; Sabermahani et al. 2009; and Yang
et al. 2010.