Particle-scale insight into soil arching under trapdoor condition

Soil Arching Behind Retaining Walls under Active Translation Mode: Review and New Insights

Granular materials have a tendency to exhibit an arching effect by which the load is transferred from yielding parts to adjacent stationary parts. Retaining walls are among those structures that the soil arching plays an important role in the distribution of earth pressures. This paper briefly reviews the development of soil arching theory and its application to different geotechnical projects....

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An Experimental Investigation into the Arching Effect in Fine Sand

In the current paper results of a well instrumented experimental procedure for studying the arching effect in loose and dense sand are presented. The apparatus comprises concentric circular trapdoors with different diameters that can yield downward while stresses and deformations are recorded simultaneously. As the trapdoor starts to yield, the whole soil mass deforms elastically. However, afte...

Field-Scale Electrical Conductivity Mapping for Delineating Soil Condition

water resources and enhancing soil quality (Wallace, 1994). An essential first step to the successful implemenTraditional sampling methods are inadequate for assessing the tation of site-specific management is the evaluation of interrelated physical, chemical, and biological soil properties responsible for variations in agronomic yield and ecological potentials across new technologies at the fi...

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