...C. Deng; S.K. Haigh A series of centrifuge tests was conducted to explore the earth pressures mobilised in loose and dense sand for a complete set of active movement modes of a rigid retaining wall: rotation about the base, translation and rotation about the top. Earth pressures behind the wall...

...K. Fan; S. H. Liu; Y. P. Cheng; Y. Wang Model tests were conducted to analyse the sliding stability of a retaining wall constructed by soilbags. The aim was to obtain an equation that calculates the active resultant earth pressure of sand acting on the wall in the ultimate state. Additionally...

... retaining walls Estimation of active earth pressure distributions is an essential step in evaluating the performance of retaining structures at both the service and strength limit states, and typically applied using simplified analyses. Frequently, a planar failure surface is assumed to develop...

...V. R. Greco This paper presents an algorithm for the calculation of the active thrust of backfill with an irregular profile acting on retaining walls. The problem is addressed with Coulomb's method, assuming that the slip surface delimiting the thrust wedge is linear in form and considering...

...A. Pain; D. Choudhury; S. K. Bhattacharyya Seismic stability analysis is an important aspect in the design of safe retaining walls in earthquake-prone areas. In this study, the limit equilibrium method is used for sliding stability analysis of a gravity retaining wall supporting cohesionless...

...Y-J. Jiang; Y. Zhao The study of granular flow is important for natural hazards such as avalanche and debris flow. In this context, granular flow impact against a retaining wall was investigated through the measurement of both normal and tangential sub-forces. The tangential sub-forces change from...

... anchors. 15 06 2014 24 07 2014 01 10 2014 ICE Publishing: all rights reserved 2014 anchors gravels ground improvement landslides retaining walls soil nailing Figure 4 illustrates the influence of increasing the number of horizontal anchors from three to six...

...R. Butterfield When conventional retaining walls fail, they usually do so either by being transported bodily within a landslide of the material they are retaining or by a local failure of their foundation, particularly if it is a rigid base at shallow depth. The purpose of this letter is to present...