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Learning Objectives
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Ka and Kp for More Realistic Non-Planar
Failure Surfaces
Terzaghi (1943) extended the Coulomb earth pressure
theory to accommodate a failure surface geometry
consisting of log-spiral and linear segments.
For the case of passive failure with positive wall friction,
Terzaghi assumed the following failure surface drawn in red.
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Ka and Kp for More Realistic Non-Planar
Failure Surfaces
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Ka and Kp for More Realistic Non-Planar
Failure Surfaces
α = 45 - φ/2
α α
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Ka and Kp for More Realistic Non-Planar
Failure Surfaces
Another part of the zone of plastic equilibrium consists of
the blue shaded zone whose lower boundary is curved.
The shape of this curved boundary may be reasonably
approximated as a logarithmic spiral function, or even an
arc of a circle.
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Ka and Kp for More Realistic Non-Planar
Failure Surfaces
Caquot and Kerisel (1948) made further developments
to the non-linear failure plane theory, and produced
charts/tables for Ka and Kp values based on the log-
spiral + linear failure surface.
Jean Kerisel
Albert Caquot 2.13 - 7
Non-planar Failure Surfaces
The next few slides contain the charts for active and
passive earth pressure coefficents that are extracted
from EC7 Annex C.
Note that I did not extract all the charts from the EC7
document.
If you would like to get the additional charts not
shown here, please refer to the EC7 document.
Note that even the charts provided by EC7 Annex C
are not complete. In many cases, you would still
have to interpolate between the charts.
For example, the EC7 charts only provide the K
values for certain wall frictions, δ/φ = 0, 0.67 and 1.
If you need K values for other δ/φ values, in some
cases you will need to interpolate between charts. 2.13 - 9
Eurocode 7 Annex C (KA for β=0, α=90º)
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Eurocode 7 Annex C (KP for β=0, α=90º)
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Eurocode 7 Annex C (KA for δ=0, α=90º)
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Eurocode 7 Annex C (KA for δ=φ′, α=90º)
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Ka and Kp Chart from NAVFAC DM7.02
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Summary of the Log-Spiral + Linear Segment
Failure Surface Method
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