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Determination of seismic earth pressure on a rigid retaining wall

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    The diagram of the intensity of the seismic pressure of cohesionless soil on a rigid retaining wall has the form of a triangle with a vertex at the base of the wall.

  2. 2.

    The seismic pressure of cohesionless soil on a rigid wall depends more on the elastic characteristics of the soil medium and considerably less on its angle of internal friction.

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    The standard method of determining loads from seismic earth pressure noticeably understates their extent and requires reexamination.

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  1. B. M. Bakhtin
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  2. Nguen Van Khuan
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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 1, pp. 41–45, January, 1980.

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Bakhtin, B.M., Van Khuan, N. Determination of seismic earth pressure on a rigid retaining wall. Hydrotechnical Construction 14, 70–77 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02307962

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