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 ]
   
 

Height of application of the resultant earth pressure

In case where the earth pressure is linearly distributed, the height of application of the resultant earth pressure from the wall bottom is,

and when q=0, then = H/3.

For the curvilinearly distributed earth pressure,

where,
M is the resultant moment of the earth pressure about the wall bottom

 
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