Solved Problem on Soil Mechanics

Submitted by tushar pramanick on Tue, 07/23/2013 - 17:51
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GATE 2013 : Civil Engineering

Q. Two different soil types (Soil 1 and Soil 2) are used as backfill behind a retaining wall as shown in the figure, where γt is total unit weight, and c' and φ' are effective cohesion and effective angle of shearing resistance. The resultant active earth forceper unit length (in kN/m) acting on the wall is:

 

 

 

Options: (A) 31.7 (B) 35.2 (C) 51.8 (D) 57.0

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