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Plate anchors are one the most important retaining objects that are widely used in onshore and offshore structures, such as retaining walls, foundations dealing with uplift, wind turbines, offshore floating platforms fixed against sea waves, and buried and submerged pipelines. The present study was conducted to evaluate the performance of retaining walls that are stabilized with plate anchors based on experimental modeling. The evaluation includes the assessment of the effects of the square and circular forms of the anchor plates, their dimensions, and the reinforcement configuration, on the bearing capacity of a strip footing and the horizontal displacement of a wall. To visualize the critical slip surface occurring in the soil surrounding the wall and the effects of these parameters on the failure wedge, the particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique was applied. The results showed that the highest bearing capacity and the lowest horizontal displacement of the wall were in the 5-anchors, the diamond, an...