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Retaining walls supporting earth make an important component in infrastructure works like highways, roads, ports, bridge abutment.
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Chowdhury and Singh (2015); Behavior of gravity-type retaining wall under earthquake load under generalized earth fill—Journal of Earthquake Engineering December Taylor and Francis USA.
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Personal communications with Dr. Ignacio Arango and Dr. Farhang Ostadan April 2005.
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Chowdhury, I., Dasgupta, S.P. (2019). Earthquake Analysis of Earth Retaining Structures. In: Earthquake Analysis and Design of Industrial Structures and Infra-structures. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90832-8_4
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