Cohesionless soils cannot stand vertically without confinement (Wall?) unless you have some capillary cohesion holding it together. If the stress state (circle) is below the failure line a soil wedge shearing onthe angle of rupture is being held back. The stress state will be violated if you...
I am writing this thread from Africa and have seen that Multi-anchored Soldier Piles (Concrete and shotcrete lagging) are used extensively in places such as Melbourne.
I have a few questions and was hoping someone from there would be so kind to respond:
- AS4678 does not provide clarification...
