presented is a method of two-dimensional analysis of the active earth pressure due to simultaneous effect of both soil weight and surcharge of strip foundation. the study’s aim is to provide a rigorous solution to the problem in the framework of upper-bound theorem of limit analysis method in order to produce some design charts for calculating the lateral active earth pressure of backfill when ...

Using the Reciprocal Theorem and the principle of superposition, this dissertation examines three procedures for obtaining the impedance functions and driving force vectors necessary for a soil-structure interaction analysis. The first procedure employs a volume integral of body forces and the displacement Green’s Functions to obtain the frequency dependent force-displacement relationship (impe...

This paper gives a method to construct rigid spaces, which is similar to the method used to construct toric schemes.