Design and Construction “CE Board Exam May 1997″
March 22nd, 2010
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A vertical wall retains a cohesionless soil which has a unit weight of 14 kN/m3, and angle of internal friction of 26 degrees. If the wall is 5.0m high, what is the total active soil pressure in kN on the wall. Assume a unit length of wall.
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