engineering recuitment GATE CE 2023-24 Test Series Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Earth Pressure
Which of these following Assumptions are common to Rankine’s and coulomb’s earth pressure theories?
1
The backfill is horizontal and the back of the wall is smooth and vertical.
2
The backfill is dry homogeneous and cohesionless.
3
The sliding wedge acts as a rigid body.
4
The failure surface is assumed to be planar.