Only the pull of geotextile can be considered by the current analysis method of seawall stability. The influence of the friction between geotextile and soil on the seawall stability is ignored.In this paper
a new method to calculate the practical distribution of the friction and the pull of geotextile based on the elastic membrane theory and the finite difference method is developed.The field observation result is considered simultaneously in this method. Furthermore
the effects of the friction and the pull of geotextile on the seawall stability are discussed.A conclusion that the friction between geotextile and soil contributes more to the seawall stability than the pull of geotextile