Seismic active earth pressure of cohesive-frictional soil on retaining wall based on a slice analysis method |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China;2. National Engineering Laboratory for High Speed Railway Construction, Changsha, China;1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, UK;2. Telematic University of Naples, Pegaso, Italy;3. Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Italy;4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Italy;5. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece;6. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, USA;1. Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Barjala, Jirania, 799046 West Tripura, India;2. Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Barjala, Jirania, 799046 West Tripura, India;1. Marino Engineering Associates, Inc., 1370 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO 63117, USA;2. Department of Civil Engineering, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 61 Circle Dr., Edwardsville, IL 62026-1800, USA;1. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China;2. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore;1. Department of Civil Engineering, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 61 Circle Dr., Edwardsville, IL 62026-1800, USA;2. Department of Civil Engineering, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1263 Lincoln Dr., Carbondale, IL 62901, USA |
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| Abstract: | The M–O (Mononobe–Okabe) theory is used as a standard method to determine the seismic earth pressure. However, the M–O theory does not consider the influence of soil cohesion, and it cannot determine the nonlinear distribution of the seismic earth pressure. This paper presents a general solution for the nonlinear distribution of the seismic active earth pressure of cohesive-frictional soil using the slice analysis method. A new method is proposed to determine the critical failure angle of the backfill wedge under complex conditions, and an iterative calculation method is presented to determine the tension crack depth of the seismic active earth pressure. The considered parameters in the proposed method include the horizontal and vertical seismic coefficients, wall inclination angle, backfill inclination angle, soil friction angle, wall friction angle, soil cohesion, wall adhesion and uniform surcharge. The classical methods of the M–O and Rankine theories can be regarded as special cases of the proposed method. Furthermore, the proposed method is compared with the test results and previously existing solutions to validate the correctness of the results. Additionally, the parameters? effect on the critical failure angle, the resultant force, the application-point position, the tension crack depth and the nonlinear distribution of seismic active earth pressure are studied in graphical form. |
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| Keywords: | Active earth pressure Limit equilibrium methods Earthquakes Retaining walls |
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