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This chapter talks about retaining walls. There are many different types of retaining walls, but they are generally classified into two main categories: bottom‐up walls and top‐down walls. The chapter discusses Coulomb and Rankine earth pressure theories, describes the undrained behavior of fine‐grained soils, and explains the concepts of at‐rest pressure and earth pressure due to compaction. Separate sections discuss earth pressures in shrink‐swell soils, and displacements. The chapter also describes various types of walls: gravity walls, mechanically stabilized earth walls (MSE), cantilever top‐down walls, anchored walls, strutted walls, and soil nailwalls, as well as trenches.
This chapter talks about retaining walls. There are many different types of retaining walls, but they are generally classified into two main categories: bottom‐up walls and top‐down walls. The chapter discusses Coulomb and Rankine earth pressure theories, describes the undrained behavior of fine‐grained soils, and explains the concepts of at‐rest pressure and earth pressure due to compaction. Separate sections discuss earth pressures in shrink‐swell soils, and displacements. The chapter also describes various types of walls: gravity walls, mechanically stabilized earth walls (MSE), cantilever top‐down walls, anchored walls, strutted walls, and soil nailwalls, as well as trenches.
Retaining Walls
Briaud, Jean‐Louis (author)
Geotechnical Engineering ; 716-783
2013-10-21
68 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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