Displacement-Dependent Lateral Earth Pressure Models
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 144, Issue 6
Abstract
A model for evaluating the lateral earth pressure distribution for retaining walls as a function of intermediate displacement between the full active and passive states is proposed in this paper. The proposed method can be readily used in practice without prior knowledge of earth pressure measurements. The efficacy of the proposed approach is demonstrated through the comparison of the estimated earth pressure coefficients with the experimental results. The proposed approach is useful in assessing the dependence of correction factors for Rankine’s solutions on the effective friction angle and the magnitude of displacement to account for the prefailure behavior of soil at any intermediate state. Similar to a wall pushing into the retained soil, passive earth pressures are generated around driven piles. The coefficient of earth pressure from the suggested model is coupled with cavity expansion theory to estimate the depth of ground heave induced by pile driving. The results of the proposed approach in estimating the ground heave are compared with the finite-element solutions.
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Acknowledgments
This work had been supported by the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (Grant No. 51322807), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51578164), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province (Grant No. 2016GXNSFGA380008), and the Ministry of Education of China through the Changjiang Scholars Program to Dr. Guoxiong Mei, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41672296) to Dr. Yanlin Zhao.
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Volume 144 • Issue 6 • June 2018
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Received: Oct 21, 2016
Accepted: Nov 28, 2017
Published online: Mar 28, 2018
Published in print: Jun 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Aug 28, 2018
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