Study on the Seismic Active Earth Pressure by Variational Limit Equilibrium Method

Table 1

Comparison of calculated results of active earth pressure with that of M-O.

/°	/°			The proposed method		M-O method
				/kN		/kN
0	0	0	0	391.0~412.1	0.265~0.408	391.0	1/3
0	5	0.05	0.05	424.6~450.2	0.286~0.449	424.5	1/3
0	10	0.1	0.1	470.8~495.0	0.306~0.490	470.7	1/3
10	0	0.05	0.1	460.5~475.2	0.327~0.408	460.1	1/3
10	5	0.1	0	504.3~525.3	0.327~0.449	504.3	1/3
10	10	0	0.05	559.9~572.8	0.367~0.469	559.6	1/3
20	0	0.1	0.05	550.4~562.8	0.347~0.408	550.3	1/3
20	5	0	0.1	604.9~616.1	0.367~0.429	604.7	1/3
20	10	0.05	0	682.7~696.3	0.388~0.469	682.5	1/3