Job No:

Subject CE5108A
Lateral Earth Pressures & Retaining Wall Design via EC 7 Sheet No: of
Designed by: Checked by: Date: 30/11/2018
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α = 110°, β = 20°, H = 8m, φ = 35°, δ=28°, γ = 18 kN/m3

Compare your spreadsheet answer with the Coulomb closed-form solution given
in the lecture notes.

Validations of the Calculations Using Close form Solutions

Pa = 0.5 Kaγh

ka = sin (α−φ)/(𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝛼 )
( .
05 sin 𝛿+𝜑 𝑥 sin 𝜑−𝛽 0.5 )2
𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝛼+𝛿 + sin α−𝛽

sin (α−φ) = 0.97 𝑠𝑖𝑛 (𝛼+𝛿) = 0.67

sin (α) = 0.94 sin⁡
(α−𝛽) = 1.00
(𝛿+𝜑)
sin⁡ = 0.89 (𝜑−𝛽)
sin⁡ = 0.26

ka = 0.627

Pa = 0.5 Kaγh 2
= 361.1

Conclusions : The Values obtained from the Force Polygon method and Values
obtained from Coulomb Closed from Solutions are Exact