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Lateral Earth Pressure and Strut Forces

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Problems of deep excavation, either stability analysis, stress analysis, or deformation analysis, entail the distribution of earth pressures. Though introductory books on soil mechanics or foundation engineering have discussed quite a few earth pressure theories along with many examples, systematic research is deficient. Some important points may not be sufficiently emphasized. In actual analyses, a wrong choice of earth pressure theory may lead to an uneconomical or unsafe design.

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Zhang, W., Liu, H. (2022). Lateral Earth Pressure and Strut Forces. In: Design of Deep Braced Excavation and Earth Retaining Systems Under Complex Built Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5320-9_3

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