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Seismic Pressure Analysis for Retaining Walls

Wood's solution provides an estimate of dynamic earth pressures for rigid retaining walls with non-yielding backfill. It assumes the static earth pressure component is at-rest earth pressure, which is added to the dynamic earth pressures obtained from Wood's method to get total earthquake pressures. Figures E-7-11 and E-7-12 show normalized horizontal stress and resultant force/moment values based on Wood's solution, with stresses varying based on the normalized wall height and backfill width. These values can be scaled for other horizontal accelerations.

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Seismic Pressure Analysis for Retaining Walls

Wood's solution provides an estimate of dynamic earth pressures for rigid retaining walls with non-yielding backfill. It assumes the static earth pressure component is at-rest earth pressure, which is added to the dynamic earth pressures obtained from Wood's method to get total earthquake pressures. Figures E-7-11 and E-7-12 show normalized horizontal stress and resultant force/moment values based on Wood's solution, with stresses varying based on the normalized wall height and backfill width. These values can be scaled for other horizontal accelerations.

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Chapter E-7 Seismic Evaluation of Retaining Walls

Figure E-7-10.—Total seismic lateral earth pressures consisting of active/passive


components and increment dynamic components (from Seed and Whitman 1970).

E-7.2.2 Wood’s Solution


Wood’s solution provides an estimate of dynamic earth pressures for rigid walls
with non-yielding backfill (Wood 1973). The dynamic earth pressures obtained
from this method must be added to the static earth pressures to obtain the total
earth pressures during an earthquake. Because the wall is assumed rigid, the
static earth pressure component is assumed to be at-rest earth pressure.

Figure E-7-11 presents two examples of the variation in the values for normalized
horizontal stresses with normalized elevations above the base of a wall, based on
Wood’s solution (Wood 1973). An L/H value of 1 (where L = the width of
backfill and H = the wall height) corresponds to a narrow backfill placed within
rigid containment and an L/H value of 10 represents a backfill of great width.
The x) at any vertical location Y, along the wall, are
on figure E-7-11. Figure E-7-12 provides the
corresponding resultant horizontal force, Fsr, and the corresponding seismic
moment about the base of a rigid wall, Msr
L/H. The height at which the resultant force acts on the wall can be determined
by computing Ysr = Msr/Fsr. The stresses shown on figure E-7-11 and the
moments and forces shown on figure E-7-12 are based on a 1.0g horizontal
acceleration. For other horizontal accelerations, the values from figures E-7-11

E-7-14
July 2019

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