Mountain Road Multi-Level Retaining Wall Horizontal Earth Pressure Law

2013 ◽  
Vol 671-674 ◽  
pp. 1217-1220
Author(s):  
Yong Wei Wang ◽  
Hong Xia Li ◽  
Yan Qin Guo

Combining with a mountain highway retaining wall earth pressure measured data, carried out a detailed study of the of multiple retaining wall back soil pressure distribution law, based on multi-level retaining wall measured horizontal earth pressure data mountainous retaining wallshorizontal earth pressure formula is derived, summed up the horizontal earth pressure with filling height variation.

2013 ◽  
Vol 353-356 ◽  
pp. 312-317
Author(s):  
Ying Yong Li ◽  
Li Zhi Zheng ◽  
Hong Bo Zhang ◽  
Xiu Guang Song ◽  
Zhi Chao Xue

In order to ensure the security of gravity retaining wall in the high fill subgrade, the design of gravity retaining wall with anchors is proposed,the characteristic of the new wall is that comment anchors are added to the traditional gravity retaining wall,by friction anchors provide lateral pull to the wall so the stability of the new wall is improved. Because of the constraints of anchors, the lateral free deformation is influenced and the soil pressure distribution is very complicated, field tests showed that soil pressure distribution is nonlinear and pressure concentrate in anchoring position. In order to reveal the supporting mechanism of retaining wall and propose the soil pressure formula, the model test of anchor retaining wall is made and numerical simulation is done. The results show that soil pressure appears incresent above the anchor and decreasing below the anchor, the soil pressre also grew larger away from the anchor proximal in the horizontal direction.


2012 ◽  
Vol 204-208 ◽  
pp. 718-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Li ◽  
Xiao Song

The traditional formula using for the calculation of Expressway on high embankment of the retaining wall and the earth pressure can not be very good practical. In order to accurately determine the soil pressure calculation of the complex retaining wall in construction stage for guaranteeing the engineering safety, the experiment study on soil pressure is done, and the study on soil pressure monitoring data is also done. Then the valuable conclusions are obtained to facilitate better practical guidance for construction.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Ghobadi ◽  
Hadi Shahir

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the distribution of active earth pressure in retaining walls with narrow cohesion less backfill considering arching effects. Design/methodology/approach To this end, the approach of principal stresses rotation was used to consider the arching effects. Findings According to the presented formulation, the active soil pressure distribution is nonlinear with zero value at the wall base. The proposed formulation implies that by increasing the frictional forces at both sides of the backfill, the arching effect is increased and so, the lateral earth pressure on the retaining wall is decreased. Also, by narrowing the backfill space, the lateral earth pressure is extremely decreased. Originality/value A comprehensive analytical solution for the active earth pressure of narrow backfills is presented, such that the effects of the surcharge and the characteristics of the stable back surface are considered. The magnitude and height of the application of lateral active force are also derived.


2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 1572-1576
Author(s):  
Jun Su ◽  
Hong Guang Chen

According to a highway expansion project, this paper makes field obversations on earth pressrue of double-sided reinforcement retaining walls and studies distribution of it. Test results show earth pressure on the back of double-sided reinforcement retaining walls grows with increase of filling height during construction and the distribution is nonlinear along with height of the wall, the maximum is at the base. Measured values of vertical earth pressure are lower than theoretical ones. And this structure of double-sided reinforcement retaining walls has low requirement on bearing pressure of foundations. The results can be used as a reference for further application in future.


2014 ◽  
Vol 633-634 ◽  
pp. 952-957
Author(s):  
Nian Qin Wang ◽  
Yao Qiong Xue ◽  
Xiao Yu Cheng ◽  
Jing Rui Wei

In the landslide disaster control and high slope strengthening engineering, anti-slide pile is one of trusted engineering measures, but cognition in aspect of forced state on the anti-slide pile, the pile-soil mechanism etc, which should be strengthened. Therefore, monitoring objects with three cantilever anti-slide pile entities in the loess high slope somewhere, burying monitoring instruments such as earth pressure cells and steel bar meter, for as long as 18 months of monitoring. Through analysis of monitoring results, can draw the following conclusion:①The soil pressure distribution form before the anti-slide piles is parabola-shape as a whole, whatever above the slip surface or under the slip surface the soil pressure distribution form behind the anti-slide piles is almost triangle as a whole;②The anti-slide piles construction are completed, pile-soil interaction force and reinforced by stress reaches stability in about 16 months;③A maximum soil pressure before the anti-slide piles on the ground, the soil pressure behind the anti-slide piles near the potential sliding surface;④Before the anti-slide piles and behind the anti-slide piles, reinforced by stress from pile cap to pile bottom respectively is "compressive stress and tensile stress" and "compressive stress, tensile stress and compressive stress, tensile and compressive stress of zero before pile is tensile stress value maximize after pile.


Retaining walls are widely used as permanent structures for retaining soils at different levels.Type of the wall depends on the soil pressure, such as active or passive earth pressure and earth pressure at rest and drainage conditions. Types of walls generally used are gravity walls, RCC walls, counterfort walls and buttress retaining walls. Retaining walls behavior depends on the wall height and retention heights of the soil at its backfill. Retaining walls are used with tying with more than one wall at perpendicular joints to retain liquids, water storage and materials storages such as dyke walls and tanks. Retaining walls excessively used in culverts and as well as in the bridges for construction of abutment wing walls supposed to resist soil pressures laterally applied perpendicular to the axis of the walls.Based on the present scenario used in retaining structures within the civil industries there requirements of height of walls are being increased due to lake of land and cost of sub structures being incurred in the project work, higher height of walls develops huge bending moment at the base because of the cantilever action of the walls, thus resulting in higher sections at the base which deploys into a uneconomical zone so different wall systems are required in different arrangements so as to transfer the loads with limited sections. In the present study retaining walls of height 6m, 9m and 12m are considered for study and the length of the walls considered as 30m and the material properties considered are M20 and Fe415 steel bars and the supports considered to be fixed at the base


2022 ◽  
Vol 2152 (1) ◽  
pp. 012014
Author(s):  
Jinyong Chen ◽  
Zhongchao Li ◽  
Rongzhu Liang ◽  
Guosheng Jiang ◽  
Wenbing Wu

Abstract Variation laws of earth pressure accounting for the displacement of are taining wall can be well described by mathmatical fitting in the study of the relationship between earth pressure and retaining wall displacement. The common mathematical function expressions of earth pressure displacement of retaining wall can be divided into sinusoidal function model, exponential like function model, hyperbolic function model, fitting function and semi-numerical and semi-analytical model function, etc. The characteristics and shortcomings of the current expression of earth pressure displacement function are summarized. Then combined with the field test and model test, the applicability and characteristics of various mathematical functions in predicting the displacement of earth pressure with retaining structures are analyzed. The results show that when the displacement is small, the sinusoidal function model and the quasi-exponential function model are close to the measured results. When the displacement of retaining structure is large, the fitting results of hyperbolic model and semi-numerical and semi-analytical model are better. For the prediction of earth pressure displacement relationship in passive area, the buried depth has a great influence. And the error between the theoretical value and the actual value has a great influence on the fitting result of the model.


2012 ◽  
Vol 170-173 ◽  
pp. 755-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Biao Liang ◽  
Jun Hai Zhao ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Chang Guang Zhang ◽  
Su Wang

Based on the unified solution of shear strength in terms of double stress state variables for unsaturated soils, whilst considering the effect of the intermediate principal stress rationally, the unified solution of Coulomb’s active earth pressure for unsaturated soils without cracks is developed. Comparability of the solution is analyzed and influencing characteristic of each factor is obtained. The research result indicates that: the intermediate principal stress and matric suction have obvious impacts on Coulomb’s active earth pressure for unsaturated soils; Coulomb’s active earth pressure has been decreasing until zero with the increase of unified strength theory parameter and matric suction; Coulomb’s active earth pressure increases with the increase of grading angle of retaining wall and slop angle of backfill, but decreases with the increase of matric suction, effective internal friction angle and matric suction angle, while external friction angle has no obvious influence. The proposed unified solution of Coulomb’s active earth pressure enjoys a wider application, and unified solution of Rankine’s active earth pressure is just the special case. The results are of great significance to soil pressure determination such as slope and foundation pit, and to retaining structures design.


1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
P. Gaffran ◽  
D. C. Sego ◽  
A. E. Peterson

The performance of a 6 m high anchored steel sheet pile retaining wall, constructed to allow CN Rail to twin its main-line track, is presented. The instruments installed gave measurement of the load and its variation along the tieback anchors; the distribution of the strain along the height of the wall which allowed an earth-pressure distribution to be postulated; and the lateral deflection of the wall. The earth-pressure distributions, inferred from the field measurements, were adequately predicted using the Terzaghi and Peck recommendation coupled with the Boussinesq procedure to account for the train loads. The best-fit lateral pressure distributions were in turn used to calculate displacement profiles by modelling the wall as a beam. The results matched the measured profiles reasonably well, thus endorsing a simplified technique for predicting displacements of an anchored wall. Key words : retaining wall, tieback, earth-pressure distribution, wall deflection, railway.


2010 ◽  
Vol 168-170 ◽  
pp. 200-205
Author(s):  
Fei Song ◽  
Jian Min Zhang ◽  
Lu Yu Zhang

The evaluation of earth pressure is of vital importance for the design of various retaining walls and infrastructures. Experimental studies show that earth pressures are closely related to the mode and amount of wall displacement. In this paper, based on the reveal of the formation mechanism of earth pressures against rigid retaining wall with RTT mode, a new method is proposed to calculate the earth pressure distribution in such conditions. Finally, the effectiveness of the method is confirmed by the experimental results.


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