Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
12 Mar 1991, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Abstract
The paper considers how, for the limit analysis approach to the seismic design of earth retaining structures, both the magnitude of soil force and the center of pressure vary with the type of displacement of the structure in translation or rotation. Two approaches are used. The first assumes that for a rotating wall the apparent internal friction angle of the backfill will vary for purely geometrical reasons. The second considers the effect of the peaked form of the stress-strain curve for a dense cohensionless soil. Both approaches show that, compared with a wall rotating about its base, the center of pressure will rise for translational displacement and even more for rotation about the top. The paper gives figures showing the magnitudes of the shifts in center of pressure, and discusses the interrelationship between the two approaches.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1991 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Elms, D. G. and Richards, R. Jr., "Comparison of Limit-State Seismic Earth Pressure Theories" (1991). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 1.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/02icrageesd/session04/1
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Comparison of Limit-State Seismic Earth Pressure Theories
St. Louis, Missouri
The paper considers how, for the limit analysis approach to the seismic design of earth retaining structures, both the magnitude of soil force and the center of pressure vary with the type of displacement of the structure in translation or rotation. Two approaches are used. The first assumes that for a rotating wall the apparent internal friction angle of the backfill will vary for purely geometrical reasons. The second considers the effect of the peaked form of the stress-strain curve for a dense cohensionless soil. Both approaches show that, compared with a wall rotating about its base, the center of pressure will rise for translational displacement and even more for rotation about the top. The paper gives figures showing the magnitudes of the shifts in center of pressure, and discusses the interrelationship between the two approaches.
