The Thrust of an Elastic Soil of Variable Density Against a Rigid Wall

Piero Villaggio
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Piero Villaggio: University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore

A chapter in Masonry Structures: Between Mechanics and Architecture, 2015, pp 313-322 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The theory of the equilibrium of a wall retaining earth masses was formulated by Coulomb in 1773. This is still applied by engineers in order to design walls. However, while Coulomb’s theory assumes that the material is earthy, like sand of soft clay, in actual fact the soil often behaves elastically, and thus the stress state inside the mass and the associated pressures on the retaining walls are different. Here we study a boundary value problem of linear elasticity in order to determine the stresses exerted by a heavy elastic mass on a rigid vertical plane, or approximately, on a rigid half-plane.

Keywords: Soil mechanics; Complex variable method in elasticity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13003-3_12

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