Passive Earth Pressures with Various Wall Movements
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical Engineering
Volume 120, Issue 8
Abstract
This paper presents experimental data of earth pressure acting against a vertical rigid wall, which moved into a mass of dry sand with a stress‐free horizontal surface under various wall‐movement modes. To investigate the variation of earth pressure induced by the rotation about a point above the top (RTT) and rotation about a point below the wall base (RBT) types of wall movement, the instrumented retaining‐wall facility was developed at National Chiao Tung University. Based on experimental data it is found that, for a wall under translational movement, the passive pressure distribution is linear and in good agreement with Terzaghi's prediction based on the general wedge theory. For a wall under either RTT or RBT mode, the magnitude of passive thrust and its point of application are significantly affected by the mode of wall displacement. However, if the parameter indicating location of the center of rotation is greater than 2.0, the influence of movementmode on passive earth pressure becomes less important.
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Journal of Geotechnical Engineering
Volume 120 • Issue 8 • August 1994
Pages: 1307 - 1323
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Copyright © 1994 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Jul 26, 1993
Published online: Aug 1, 1994
Published in print: Aug 1994
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