TACKLING MAJOR HIGHWAY LANDSLIDES IN THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS

Interstate 40, running through Tennessee's rugged Smoky Mountains, has been damaged in several places by major landslides. As illustrated by several case histories in this article, the Tennessee DOT is using a variety of approaches to solve slide problems -- e.g., reinforced-earth retaining walls, retaining walls of rock-filled wire baskets (gabions), rock buttresses placed at the toe of a potential slide area, placing fills on quick-draining rock pads, installing horizontal drains, and using pumping wells. These challenging problems together constitute almost a textbook of geotechnical engineering approaches for solving landslide problems in rugged tarrain.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  New York, NY  United States  10017-2398
• Authors:
  • Royster, D L
• Publication Date: 1975-9

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 85-87
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 45
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buttresses; Defects; Fills; Gabions; Geotechnical engineering; Highways; Horizontal drains; Landslides; Mechanically stabilized earth; Mountains; Retaining walls
• Uncontrolled Terms: Highway damage
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00128587
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 10 1976 12:00AM