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The document discusses different types of surcharge loads on retaining walls, including uniform, point, line, and strip loads. It provides closed-form solutions from past studies for estimating the lateral pressures on the wall from each type of load. These solutions make assumptions and their accuracy may be limited for flexible walls where soil arching occurs. More recent solutions have also been proposed to model lateral pressures from strip loads.
- Author
- winminthetgeo
- Language
- EN