• Geotechnical Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.101-114
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• 1996

Even though the Coulomb's earth pressure theory has been mainly used in practice, the general equation does not exist yet, which is applicable to retaining wall backfilled by cohesive soils. Here, for gravity walls backfilled by cohesive soils, some equations have been derived by newly using the Coulomb's theory, for the cases oi drained and untrained analyses. and for the cases of neglecting and considering the tension crack, respectively. Both the active earth thrust and the depth of tension crack under different conditions were tabulated.