Active and passive critical slip fields for cohesionless soils and calculation of lateral earth pressures

Geotechnique

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 407-423

  Zhu, D Y ^a   Qian, Q H ^b   Lee, C F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Earth pressure; Failure; Numerical modelling and analysis; Retaining walls

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOILS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EARTH PRESSURE;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

COHESIONLESS SOIL; EARTH PRESSURE; RETAINING WALL; SLIP;

EID: 0035382123     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2001.51.5.407     Document Type: Article

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