It is known that the distribution of active earth pressure against a translating rigid wall is not triangular but nonlinear, owing to arching effects in the backfill. In the present paper, a new formulation is proposed for calculating the active earth pressure on a rigid retaining wall undergoing horizontal translation. It takes into account the arching effects that occur in the backfill (or re...

The scaling of large structures to investigate their aerodynamics in wind tunnels is a common and robust procedure estimate important magnitudes, including pressure coefficients. Different aspects can affect the estimation coefficients; four examples are non-dimensionalization, blockage, non-stationarity, non-Gaussianity tunnel velocity. This paper shows variability coefficients due these for c...