An Analytical Method for Designing Embedded Retaining Walls

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10.2991/978-94-6463-258-3_23How to use a DOI?

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intermediate earth pressures; the Generalized Coefficient of Earth Pressure; elastic beam theory

Abstract

Intermediate earth pressures act on the wall when the latter has not moved enough so that the active or passive state to be reached. These pressures are of particular importance for designing embedded retaining walls; embedded walls are flexible structures and along their length different soil state may exist at the same time. Very recently, the author proposed a continuum mechanics approach for deriving earth pressure coefficients for any soil state between the at-rest state and the active or passive state, applicable to cohesive-frictional soils and both horizontal and vertical pseudo-static conditions. The same method also provides analytical expression for the calculation of the required wall movement (at any depth) for the mobilization of the active or passive failure state. In the present paper the author suggests a new, fully analytical method for designing embedded retaining walls, combining the proposed method with the elastic beam theory. An application example is given along with comparison with the finite element method.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lysandros Pantelidis
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/08
TI  - An Analytical Method for Designing Embedded Retaining Walls
BT  - Proceedings of the Rocscience International Conference  (RIC 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 217
EP  - 224
SN  - 2589-4943
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-258-3_23
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-258-3_23
ID  - Pantelidis2023
ER  -