Abstract: When a retaining wall is adjacent to a natural slope, the overturning of the wall is usually caused by a yielding foundation. At the point of overturning, the narrow backfill behind the wall has reached the active limit ...

Abstract: A cantilever retaining wall incorporating a long relief shelf is a specific form of retaining wall. However, currently, there are no reports investigating this retaining wall rotating about the bottom. Herein, the failure ...

Abstract: At present, the research on retaining walls with relief shelves mainly focuses on translational displacement mode, and the research on RB mode is less. Using adaptive software, it is possible to obtain the grid distribution ...

Abstract: A series of model tests were conducted to simulate the active failure of narrow cohesionless backfills behind retaining walls rotating about the base (RB mode). The tests aimed to investigate the effect of wall displacement ...

Abstract: The failure mode of the soil behind the rigid support structure of excavations parallel to tunneling was simulated using the adaptive finite-element limit analysis method. This study showed the effects of tunnel diameter, ...

Abstract: In view of the face stability of a shallow-buried shield tunnel excavation, this paper investigates the problem using an adaptive finite-element limit analysis combined with slip-line theory. First, a series of adaptive ...

Abstract: The significant characteristics of the non-Darcian flow of groundwater seepage in a low-permeability rock mass have been reported, but there have been few studies on the analytical solutions for deep-buried circular tunnels ...

Abstract: Inverted T-type retaining walls are widely used in civil engineering. Classic earth pressure theories cannot accurately predict the failure mechanism of soils behind inverted T-type retaining walls. Under wall translation ...

Abstract: It is well known that there are multiple sliding surfaces behind inverted T-type retaining walls and that reflective sliding surfaces may develop in narrow backfill. Combined with numerical analysis, this paper establishes ...

Abstract: The trapdoor test has been widely used to study engineering scenarios where pressure calculation methods need to be re-evaluated due to relative soil displacements. To propose a more reasonable calculation theory, over the ...