Retaining Wall Earth Pressure Calculation Manual

Author: Gu Weici
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is a manual for calculating earth pressure on retaining walls, including earth pressure acting on rigid retaining walls, cantilever retaining walls, counterfort retaining walls, sheet pile walls, anchored plate walls, and reinforced earth retaining walls. It comprehensively introduces various methods for calculating earth pressure, mainly including Rankine's earth pressure theory, Coulomb's earth pressure theory, limit equilibrium theory, energy theory, spatial earth pressure theory, cohesion equivalent law, finite element method, and horizontal layer calculation method, etc. The book contains numerous calculation tables and practical examples for readers to use and reference. This book is suitable for design, construction, and research personnel in civil engineering, water conservancy and hydropower engineering, highway engineering, railway engineering, shipping engineering, and mining engineering.