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How to calculate the passive earth pressure??

Asked by xichyu (222points) May 14th, 2016

If the flood submerged a retaining wall. A horizontal force towards to soil applied on the top of the retaining wall(Center of length),how to calculate the passive earth pressure?

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The soil which is homogeneous. The density of soil is p. Other parameters of soil are constant, and which can be displaced by letters.

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