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This document discusses lateral earth pressures on retaining walls. It defines active, at-rest, and passive earth pressures and how they relate to wall movement. Classical theories of earth pressure like Rankine and Coulomb are described which assume failure planes and account for soil-wall friction. The lower bound theorem for calculating minimum collapse loads is also summarized.
- Author
- Teddy
- Language
- EN