A vertical retaining wall of 5m height has to support soil having unit weight of 18KN/m, effective cohesion of 12 kN/m² and effective friction angle of 30°. As per Rankine's earth pressure theory and assuming that a tension crack has occurred, the lateral active thrust on the wall per meter length (in kN/m, round off the two decimal places), is

A vertical retaining wall of 5m height has to support soil having unit weight of 18KN/m, effective cohesion of 12 kN/m² and effective friction angle of 30°. As per Rankine's earth pressure theory and assuming that a tension crack has occurred, the lateral active thrust on the wall per meter length (in kN/m, round off the two decimal places), is

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Chapter14: Lateral Earth Pressure: Curved Failure Surface

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