Large-scale passive earth pressure load-displacement tests and numerical simulation

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1634-1643

  Wilson, Patrick ^a   Elgamal, Ahmed ^b  

^a Earth Mechanics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Large scale tests; Passive pressure; Retaining wall; Soil structure interaction

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL LOADS; DIRECT SHEAR TEST; FAILURE MECHANISM; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; HYPERBOLIC MODELS; LARGE SCALE TESTS; LATERAL LOADS; LOAD-DISPLACEMENT CURVE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PASSIVE EARTH PRESSURE; PASSIVE PRESSURE; PASSIVE RESISTANCE; REINFORCED CONCRETE WALL; RESIDUAL LEVELS; SILT CONTENTS; SOIL FRICTION; STRENGTH PARAMETERS; TEST CONFIGURATIONS; TEST DATA; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RETAINING WALLS; SOILS;

TESTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPLACEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RETAINING WALL; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 78349289565     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000386     Document Type: Article

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