Module 2 :
Theory of Earth Pressure and Bearing Capacity
Lecture 10 : Point of Application of Passive Earth Pressure [ Section10.1 Rankine's & Coulomb's Theory ]
Objectives
In this section you will learn the following
Rankine’s theory
Coulomb’s theory
Method of horizontal slices given by Wang (2000)
Distribution of the earth pressure
Height of application of the resultant earth pressure
Earth pressure distribution in seismic case given by Choudhury et al. (2002)
Expression for the seismic passive earth pressure
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