Research Article
Active Thrust on an Inclined Retaining Wall with Inclined Cohesionless Backfill due to Surcharge Effect
Table 2
Comparison of with the results for the angle of wall back of ˚.
| Soil friction angle, (degrees) | Angle of backfill slope, (degrees) | Angle of wall friction, (degrees) | (KN/m) | | % difference | | | | | Present study | Soubra and Macuh [21] |
| 40 | 16 | 26.667 | 0.4758 | 0.336 | 0.331 | 1.51 | 40 | 24 | 26.667 | 0.561 | 0.396 | 0.382 | 3.66 | 40 | 32 | 26.667 | 0.723 | 0.511 | 0.475 | 7.57 | 35 | 14 | 23.333 | 0.549 | 0.388 | 0.383 | 1.35 | 35 | 21 | 23.333 | 0.638 | 0.451 | 0.439 | 2.73 | 35 | 28 | 23.333 | 0.8 | 0.565 | 0.538 | 5.00 | 30 | 12 | 20 | 0.631 | 0.446 | 0.44 | 1.36 | 30 | 18 | 20 | 0.721 | 0.509 | 0.499 | 2.00 | 30 | 24 | 20 | 0.88 | 0.622 | 0.602 | 3.32 | 25 | 10 | 16.667 | 0.724 | 0.512 | 0.504 | 1.58 | 25 | 15 | 16.667 | 0.813 | 0.574 | 0.566 | 1.41 | 25 | 20 | 16.667 | 0.964 | 0.681 | 0.668 | 1.90 |
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