I'd say the only times it would be worth considering using FEA for MSE wall design would be for unusual structures where the assumptions embedded in the standard design process may not be applicable, if you need to investigate the interaction of an MSE wall with other structures, or if you need predictions of settlements and rotations etc. Click through for the download link and a few of the changes. Even for cross-checking purposes, it's going to be difficult to correllate Strand7 (or any FEA package) results to typical MSE design calculations. ADAMA Software has released update 10.1 for their Mechanically Stabilized Earth retaining wall design software, MSEW 3.0 as of September 29, 2009. Strand7 can be used to analyse MSE structures, and I've done it, but as a general purpose program it's obviously not set up for that purpose, and if you are wanting to produce a design for normal conditions it would be much easier to use a program that was intended for the purpose, or even set up your own calculations on a spreadsheet. I have never used MSEW 3.0 (or any other number). I'm going to assume MSE is Mechanically Stabilised Earth.
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