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Slender retaining walls have emerged with developments in reinforced concrete and steel production as they use their flexural stiffness to transfer nearly horizontal active lateral soil forces on the wall into nearly horizontal passive forces onto the ground in front of wall. Sketches of cross sections of slender retaining walls are shown in Fig. 8.1. The walls are also called embedded.
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Srbulov, M. (2011). Slender Retaining Walls. In: Practical Soil Dynamics. Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1312-3_8
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