Laboratory Report LR 766 Experimental retaining wall facility - lateral stress measurements with sand backfill

Publication Year

1977

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Describes a pilot scale earth retaining wall, its facilities and the initial experiments to measure the lateral soil pressure by compaction of a washed sand, and the active and passive pressures produced when the wall was moved away from and into the soil respectively.

Author

Carder, D. R. Pocock, R. G. and Murray, R. T.

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