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A Study Of Passive Earth Pressure In Anisotropic Sand With Various Wall Movement Modes, Achmad Bakri Muhiddin

Civil & Environmental Engineering Theses & Dissertations

This study investigated the effect of anisotropy on passive pressure in sands by developing computer simulation utilizing FLAC code for plane strain condition. A series of wall movement modes was applied namely translation, rotation about a point below the wall, RBT, and rotation about a point above the wall, RTT.

From comparisons with other FLAC model in translation mode with isotropic material, the coefficients of passive pressure K_p were similar to each other except for some combinations of zero dilation, low wall friction, and high angle of internal friction ϕ. Dilation angle has less effect on K_p than …