Study on active and passive failure surface in backfilled cohesionless soil behind rigid retaining wall
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Study on active and passive failure surface in backfilled cohesionless soil behind rigid retaining wall
Vol. 26, Issue S2, (2005)
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中国科学院武汉岩土力学研究所,武汉,430071
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CLC:TU443
Online First:16 December 2005,
Published:2005
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XU Xi-chang, CHEN Shan-xiong, XU Hai-bin. Study on active and passive failure surface in backfilled cohesionless soil behind rigid retaining wall[J]. 2005, 26(S2).
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XU Xi-chang, CHEN Shan-xiong, XU Hai-bin. Study on active and passive failure surface in backfilled cohesionless soil behind rigid retaining wall[J]. 2005, 26(S2).DOI:
Study on active and passive failure surface in backfilled cohesionless soil behind rigid retaining wall
the failure surface in the backfilled cohesionless soil behind rigid retaining wall in slope engineering is assumed a plane. However
it has been proved by a number of laboratory and field tests that this failure surface is actually a curved surface. In this paper
based on the vertical differential element method and the variational principle with moveable boundary
a quadratic ordinary differential equation of the first order about the failure surface is deduced. Three cases of the equation are discussed: 1) without lateral shear force at the interface between two elements
and the back of the retaining wall is frictionless
the failure surface is a plane; 2) lateral shear force is a constant
and the back of the wall is rough
the failure surface is also a plane
the two cases above mentioned are identical to Coulomb’s theory; 3) lateral shear force increases linearly from the tip to the toe
the failure surface is a curved surface. Results show that the proposed approach can predict right failure pattern of the backfilled cohesionless soil
which is in good agreement with that of the laboratory and field tests.