ABSTRACT
As explained in Chapter 6, Section 6.4 and Figure 6.3, a range of super- cially similar techniques exist that use anchors or reinforcement to provide support:
− Soil reinforcement (a.k.a. ‘reinforced ll’, ‘mechanically stabilised earth’ (MSE) or ‘Reinforced Earth®’)
− Anchored earth − Soil nailing − Anchored shotcrete or anchored pre-cast facings
These are covered in the following sections. Eurocode 7 classies walls that are composed of elements of gravity and
embedded walls as ‘Composite Walls’. This chapter also includes material on a number of other types of retaining systems, such as bridge abutments and cofferdams.
