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Lateral earth pressure
About: Lateral earth pressure is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5334 publications have been published within this topic receiving 62552 citations.
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01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of soil mechanics, including basic characteristics of soils, seepage, effective stress, shear strength, stresses and displacements, and lateral earth pressure, including the design of earth-retaining structures.
Abstract: This book, which is intended to serve the needs of the undergraduate civil engineering student, studies the following aspects of soil mechanics: basic characteristics of soils; seepage; effective stress; shear strength; stresses and displacements; lateral earth pressure, including the design of earth-retaining structures; consolidation theory; bearing capacity; stability of slopes; ground investigation.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the uplift capacity of six small diameter drilled shafts installed in stiff cohesive soil is compared with pullout tests conducted to failure, assuming that failure takes place as a result of perimeter shear.
Abstract: Predictions of the ultimate uplift capacity of six small-diameter drilled shafts installed in stiff cohesive soil are compared with pullout tests conducted to failure. The shafts were installed by the dry-hole method with gravity free-fall concrete placement, and were 76 mm and 152 mm in diameter with lengths ranging from 1.52 to 4.57 m. Predictions of the ultimate uplift capacity were made assuming that failure takes place as a result of perimeter shear. An effective stress model was used with soil parameters obtained from in situ tests. Soil shear strength was obtained from the results of borehole shear tests, and an interpreted profile of in situ, at-rest horizontal soil stress was obtained from the results of prebored pressuremeter tests. The results of the test program demonstrate that the borehole shear test and pressuremeter test may be used in combination to design drilled shafts for uplift resistance in stiff soils.
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TL;DR: In this article, a discretized three-dimensional failure mechanism of sloping backfills is proposed to estimate the seismic active earth pressure coefficient under nonlinear failure criterion, where the normality condition is strictly satisfied in the generation of the end cap.
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TL;DR: In this article, a reconfigurable loading and data acquisition platform was developed for the first time to perform "standing" prototype loading tests on a special-shape segmental lining.
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