What are the objectives of the earth pressure and retaining structures?
After knowing all concepts about the same you should be able to learn:
a. Know the field situations where Active, Passive and at rest earth pressures development,
b. Compute the lateral earth thrusts by Rankine and Coulomb methods for cohesion less and cohesive soils, and
c. For checking the stability of gravity and cantilever retaining walls against sliding bearing capacity and overturning failures.
d. Here assume that consider the methods for determining the active thrust and passive resistance.