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Dec 1971
Finite Element Analyses of Retaining Wall Behavior
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Volume 97, Issue 12
Abstract
A means is developed for simulation of realistic behavior of the interface between a backfill soil and a retaining wall in finite element analyses. The interface behavior is shown from a series of laboratory tests to be dependent upon normal and shear stresses on the interface. An analytical formulation is derived to fit the observed relationships and utilized to govern the behavior of a one-dimensional element which serves as the interface between two dimensional soil and retaining wall elements in finite element analyses. Analyses are presented of a typical retaining wall-backfill system with varying modes of wall behavior and degrees of wall roughness. Earth presure distributions before the ultimate conditions are reached are shown to be nonlinear. Ultimate conditions and general behavior of the system are shown to be in agreement with classical theory and previously observed behavior. An additional analysis is presented in which the exact construction sequence of a retaining-wall backfill system is simulated.
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Journal of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division
Volume 97 • Issue 12 • December 1971
Pages: 1657 - 1673
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© 1971 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Dec 1971
Published online: Feb 12, 2021
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G. Wayne Clough, AM.ASCE
Asst. Prof. of Civ. Engrg.; Duke Univ., Durham, NC
James M. Duncan, AM.ASCE
Assoc. Prof. of Civ. Engrg.; Univ. of California, Berkeley, Calif.
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