This section is part of: Athanasopoulos, G. A. (2021) "Online Lecture Notes on Soil Mechanics", Geoengineer.org, DOI: https://doi.org/10.48246/GEOENG-EDU-001
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where:
where:
For the Passive Case, the Coulomb Theory cannot be used when δ > 2/3φ because in this case the failure surface is highly curved. Figure 7.2 gives values of KP for different values of φ and δ, for a curved failure surface.
In this case, the earth pressures are estimated by superposition of the following two resultants:
Distribution of Active Earth Pressures where: w...
If the backfill surface and/or the internal face...
Problem 7.1 For the retaining wall shown in the...
Gravity Walls The active earth pressures on the w...
Introduction Geotechnical instrumenta...