Reinforced soil walls (RSW) in confined spaces like steep mountainous slope or extend-ed/widening highway approaches have always been a challenge for design, stability and economy. A practical solution to such situations is to construct a reinforced soil wall in front of existing stable em-bankment. Such walls are known as Shored Reinforced Soil Walls (SRSW) which requires shorter rein-forcement lengths at bottom than conventional reinforced soil walls. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyze SRSW using a finite element program Plaxis 2D.The reinforced soil wall models are val-idated using sample reinforced soil wall. SRSW has been analyzed by varying the shoring wall inclina-tion. The shoring wall inclination is varied by keeping the lower reinforcement length as 0.30 times the height of wall, while the top reinforcement length is varied from 0.30 times height to 0.70 times the height of wall. The maximum tensile force in the reinforcement is studied for variation of shoring wall in-clination. A further analysis was carried out to obtain relationship between the percentage wall height and ratio of coefficient of active earth pressure from finite element analysis for varying shoring wall inclina-tion. The finite element analysis reveals that SRSW walls with low wall aspect ratio as low as low as 0.30H times wall height can be used in field provided the top reinforcements (where the failure plane does not intersect the reinforcement) shall be connected with the shored wall.
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