Indeed, apparent cohesion may render reinforcements dormant, but when the cohesion vanishes, the reinforcement will be activated and failure may occur. The issue of dormant reinforcement due to apparent cohesion is explicitly described in: Leshchinsky, D., “Geosynthetic reinforced walls and slopes: Is it magic?” Geosynthetics Magazine 28(3), 2010, 17-24. The indications that suggest current design is conservative do not transitively imply that the remedy offered by the K-stiffness Method is correct.
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