Special cases
Retaining walls – Active and passive earth pressure

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Special cases
Retaining walls – Active and passive earth pressure

Authors : Thomas SIMONNOT, Yann JUILLIÉ

Publication date: May 10, 2015, Review date: July 20, 2020 | Lire en français

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5. Special cases

5.1 Overloads on the ground surface

Coulomb's method (see § 3.1 ) is well suited to all cases of overload (uniform, non-uniform, point), using Culmann's graphical method.

In the simple case of a uniform vertical surcharge q, all methods can be used, in particular Rankine's method (see §...

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