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This material is copyright - all rights reserved. Reproduced under licence from The <strong>Steel</strong> Construction Institute on 12/2/2007<br />

To buy a hardcopy version of this document call 01344 872775 or go to http://shop.steelbiz.<strong>org</strong>/<br />

<strong>Steel</strong> <strong>Designers</strong>' <strong>Manual</strong> - 6th Edition (2003)<br />

Fig. 29.12 Potential ultimate limit states<br />

See Fig. 29.13 for diagrammatic representation of earth pressures.<br />

The generalized form of kac, kpc and d can be obtained from BS 8002 8 or CIRIA<br />

104. 27<br />

The total horizontal active and passive earth pressures acting against the wall are<br />

given by:<br />

sa = s¢a + u and sp = s¢p + u<br />

where u is the pore water pressure.<br />

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