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Rankine earth pressure: a standalone construct

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Rankine earthpressure1 CONSTRUCTRankine earth pressureRANKINE · GEOTECHNICAL

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Geotechnical engineering

a theory giving the lateral pressure of soil on a retaining wall at active and passive limiting states.

In geotechnical engineering, Rankine earth pressure refers to a theory giving the lateral pressure of soil on a retaining wall at active and passive limiting states. This meaning comes from Rankine (1857) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.[1]

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References

  1. Rankine, W. J. M. (1857). On the stability of loose earth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 9-27. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1857.0003

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