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The possible stresses in a soil are limited by the Mohr–Coulomb failure criterion. In 1857 the Scottish engineer W.J.M. Rankine used this criterion to establish limiting values for the stresses in the interior of a soil mass. This will be shown to lead to limits for the lateral stress coefficient K in this chapter. For simplicity the considerations will be restricted to dry soils at first. The influence of pore water will be investigated later.
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Verruijt, A. (2018). Rankine. In: An Introduction to Soil Mechanics. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61185-3_32
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