TY - JOUR ID - 68313 TI - Soil Arching Behind Retaining Walls under Active Translation Mode: Review and New Insights JO - International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering JA - IJMGE LA - en SN - 2345-6930 AU - Khosravi, Mohammad Hossein AU - Bahaaddini, Mojtaba AU - Kargar, Ali Reza AU - Pipatpongsa, Thirapong AD - UT AD - Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran AD - Department of Urban Management, Kyoto University, Japan Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 52 IS - 2 SP - 131 EP - 140 KW - Arching effect, Soil arching KW - Retaining walls KW - Lateral earth pressure DO - 10.22059/ijmge.2018.264011.594754 N2 - Granular materials have a tendency to exhibit an arching effect by which the load is transferred from yielding parts to adjacent stationary parts. Retaining walls are among those structures that the soil arching plays an important role in the distribution of earth pressures. This paper briefly reviews the development of soil arching theory and its application to different geotechnical projects. Various arching-based theoretical formulations for estimation of lateral active earth pressure on the rigid retaining walls were reviewed and their validity was examined through comparisons with the filed data. It was concluded that, in spite of the conventional thought that the distribution of lateral earth pressure on the walls is linear; it is non-linear due to soil arching. Moreover, the maximum lateral stress does not appear at the toe of the wall; but at some heights, leading to a shift of the point of application of thrust from 33% to approximately 45% of the wall height measured from the bottom of the wall. UR - https://ijmge.ut.ac.ir/article_68313.html L1 - https://ijmge.ut.ac.ir/article_68313_63fb40599c0c97ffd52815826674b413.pdf ER -