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Lateral Earth Pressure in Retaining Walls by Shuja Khan is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses lateral earth pressures on retaining structures, noting that proper design requires understanding the forces between the structure and retained soil. It introduces the concepts of active, passive, and at-rest earth pressures, which depend on factors like soil shear strength, wall movement, and soil-wall interface properties. Classical lateral earth pressure theories like Rankine and Coulomb are described which use plastic equilibrium assumptions to determine active and passive pressur
- Author
- Shuja Khan
- Language
- EN