Research Article

Design Diagrams for the Analysis of Active Pressure on Retaining Walls with the Effect of Line Surcharge

Table 2

Comparison of the results of the proposed method with Ghanbari and Taheri [23] and Motta [9].

 m,  m, ,  kN/m3
°
Proposed methodGhanbari and TaheriMottaProposed methodGhanbari and TaheriMotta
[23][9][23][9]

 (kN/m)
457.96457.5463.5318.34315.08318.9
5251.951.45957.257.3

 (kN/m)
475.44472.4488.9333.80321.7334.9
5353.352.16059.758.1

 (kN/m)
506.50491.4531.5361.04334.7361.6
5655.752.96261.659