...Efthymios Panagiotis; Irene Rocchi; Francesco Petrella; Varvara Zania The predicted performance of geotechnical systems like retaining walls supporting deep excavations can deviate from observed in-situ performance due to uncertainties in ground parameters and design assumptions. Back-analysis...

... failure surface considered in the literature is re-examined. The critical height of slopes with finite width is determined, and the results are presented in the form of graphs and tables for a practical range of parameters. A separate set of results is given for the critical depth of excavations, where...