3rd Edition
Earth Pressure and Earth-Retaining Structures
Part I
Fundamentals
Soil behaviour
Introduction
Origin, composition and structure of soils and rocks
Soil strength and effective stress
Dilatancy and the critical state
Strength on preexisting failure planes
Soil stiffness and ground movements
Consolidation and swelling— ‘short- term’ and ‘long-term’ conditions
Consequences for engineering design
Structured soils
Soil properties
Soil models used for earth pressure and retaining structure analysis
Site investigation and acquisition of soil parameters
Obtaining required soil parameters from site investigation data
Factors affecting earth pressure
Wall construction
Wall and ground movements
Earth pressure principles
Summary
Water and retaining structures
Typical ground water conditions
Seepage and water pressure calculations
Water-induced instability
Groundwater control
Global and local instability
Types of instability affecting retaining structures
Classification of instability and selection of parameters
Base heave and local failure calculations
Limit equilibrium analysis of overall instability
Detecting and stabilising preexisting instability
Stabilisation of slopes using retaining structures
Part II
Design
Wall selection
Reasons for selecting a particular form of retaining wall
Gravity walls
Embedded walls
Composite walls and other support systems
Preliminary selection of wall type
Avoiding failure
Defining failure
Uncertainties in design
Providing for uncertainty—introducing safety and reliability
Summary of practice –
Introduction to analysis
Rules of thumb
Evidential methods
Closed-form solutions
Limit analysis
Limit equilibrium analyses
Discrete spring models
Continuum models
Gravity walls
Preliminary design
Detailed design—limit states for external stability
Internal stability
Calculations to Eurocode 7 for a gravity wall
Embedded walls
Selection of soil parameters
Preliminary design
Design of sheet-pile walls using limit equilibrium calculations
Propped and braced excavations
Bored pile and diaphragm walls
King post and soldier pile walls
Composite walls and other support systems
Reinforced soil
Multi-anchored earth retaining structures
Soil nailing
Design of bridge abutments for earth pressure
Cofferdams
Appendix A: Classical earth pressure theory
Appendix B: Earth pressure coefficients
References
Index
Biography
Chris R.I. Clayton, Rick I. Woods, Rick I. Woods, Jarbas Milititsky
"It offers a comprehensive introduction to the mechanisms of earth pressure and provides a thorough guide to the design requirements for retaining structures." - Librairie Lavoisier
