Abstract: In this paper the writers first present experimental results obtained for the distribution of the active stresses due to a sand backfill behind a rigid wall rotating about the top. The experimental evidence shows that the ...

Abstract: Drained and undrained cyclic torsional simple shear tests are conducted for saturated Ottawa sand with and without initial static shear applications. It was found from the experiment that when the tests were conducted under ...

Abstract: Current theories and procedures in evaluating dynamic lateral earth and water pressures due to submerged backfill soils against rigid retaining structures are throughly reviewed. Available experimental data is gathered and ...

Abstract: One‐directional (horizontal) shaking‐table experiments were conducted on one sandy and two cohesive saturated backfills to investigate the dynamic water and total lateral pressures against rigid nonyielding walls during ...