Foundation analysis and design
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...…Field Measurement of Earth Pressure in Braced Excavation (Sherif and Fang, 1984) 6 Figure 2.3: Peck (1967) and Tschebotharioff (1973) Apparent Pressure Diagrams (Bowles, 1996) .......................................................................................................................
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...Table 3.1: Soil Parameters for Finite Element Modeling ............................................................ 28 Table 3.2: Wall Properties for Finite Element Modeling ............................................................ 31 Table 3.3: Strut and Waler Properties for Finite Element Modeling .......................................... 32 Table 4.1: Comparison of Two-dimensional and Three-dimensional Maximum Horizontal Wall Movements ................................................................................................................ 39 Table 4.2: Maximum Horizontal Wall Movement for Different Methods .................................. 42 ix LIST OF FIGURES Chapter 1 Figure 1.1: Dimensions of the Excavation in: (a) x-z plane and (b) z-y plane ...................... 3 Chapter 2 Figure 2.1: Braced Excavation Elevation View (Das, 2007) ................................................. 5 Figure 2.2(a): Earth Pressure in Braced Excavation (Das, 1999); Figure 2.2(b): Field Measurement of Earth Pressure in Braced Excavation (Sherif and Fang, 1984) 6 Figure 2.3: Peck (1967) and Tschebotharioff (1973) Apparent Pressure Diagrams (Bowles, 1996) .......................................................................................................................
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...Embankment element properties The results of the plate load tests were utilised to estimate the modulus of elasticity (E) for the embankment materials, using the Vesic equation (Bowles 1997), which involves the subgrade reaction modulus (ks), Poisson’s ratio (ν), and the plate width (B)....
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...The missing data elements were obtained by considering the correlative relationships (Bowles 1997; Budhu 2011; Robertson 2009)....
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...The results of the plate load tests were utilised to estimate the modulus of elasticity (E) for the embankment materials, using the Vesic equation (Bowles 1997), which involves the subgrade reaction modulus (ks), Poisson’s ratio (ν), and the plate width (B). ks ¼ EB 1 v2ð Þ (7) E ¼ M 1 v2 (8) The…...
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