<p><p><h2>Preferred Design Procedure<strong>:</strong></h2>The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has a set of design documents for this technology. The documents are summarized below. Table 1 shows typical inputs and outputs for design and analysis procedures.</p><p><table class='tablepress' id='tablepress-313'><thead><th><center>Publication Title</th><th><center>Publication
Year
</th><th><center>Publication Number</th><th><center>Available for Download</th></thead><tbody><tr><td >Shored Mechanically Stabilized Earth (SMSE) Wall Systems Design Guidelines</td><td ><center>2006</td><td ><center>FHWA-CFL/TD-06-001</td><td ><center>Yes<sup>1</td></tr></tbody></table><br><p class="disclaimer"><sup>1</sup> <a href="http://www.geotechnicaldirectory.com/publications/MSE-Wall/MSE-Wall-Des…;
<p><p><h2>References</h2>Berg, R.R., Christopher, B.R., Samtani, N. (2009), <em>Design and Construction of Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls and Reinforced Soil Slopes</em>, FHWA NHI-10-024, Federal Highway Administration, Washington D.C.</p><p>Idriss, I.M. and Boulanger, R.W. (2008). <em>Soil Liquefaction During Earthquakes</em>, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Monograph MNO-12, 235 pp.</p><p>Morrison, K.F., Harrison, F.E., and Anderson, S.A. (2006a). “Evolution of mechanically stabilized earth wall design to incorporate permanent shoring.” Geo-volution; The Evolution of Colorado’s Geological and Geotechnical Engineering Practice; Proceedings of the 2006 Biennial Geotechnical Seminar, 149-157.</p><p>Morrison, K.F., Harrison, F.E., Collin, J.G., Dodds, A., and Arndt, B. (2006b), <em>Shored Mechanically Stabilized Earth (SMSE) Wall Systems Design Guidelines</em>. Report No. FHWA-CFL/TD-06-001. Federal Highway Administration, February, 2006.</p><p>Morrison, K. F., Harrison, F. E., Collin, J. G. and Anderson, S. A., (2006c), “Design of an Innovative Retaining Wall System for Highway Construction in Steep Terrain”, 57<sup>th</sup> Annual Geology Symposium.</p><p>Morrison, K.F., Harrison, F.E., Collin, J.G., and Anderson, S.A. (2007). “Full-scale testing of a shored mechanically-stabilized earth (SMSE) wall employing short reinforcements.” Geotechnical Special Publication: Geosynthetics in Reinforcement and Hydraulic Applications, Geo-Denver 2007, 165.</p><p>Youd, T.L., Idriss, I.M., Andrus, R.D., Arango. I., Castro, G., Christian, J.T., Dobry, R., Finn, W.D.L., Harder, L.F., Hynes, M.E., Ishihara, K., Koester, J.P., Liao, S.S.C., Marcuson, W.F., Martin, G.R., Mitchell, J.K., Moriwaki, Y., Power, M.S., Robertson, P.K., Seed, R.B., and Stokoe, K.H. (2001). “Liquefaction Resistance of Soils: Summary Report from the 1996 NCEER and 1998 NCEER/NSF Workshops on Evaluation of Liquefaction Resistance of Soils”, J. of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 127, No. 10, pp. 817 - 833. <a href="http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%291090-0241%282001%29127…;