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Long before the analysis of Rankine the French scientist Coulomb presented a theory on limiting states of stress in soils (in 1776), which is still of great value. The theory enables to determine the stresses on a retaining wall for the cases of active and passive earth pressure. The method is based upon the assumption that the soil fails along straight slip planes.
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Verruijt, A. (2018). Coulomb. 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_33
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