Rankine's theory of earth pressure assumes that the back of the wall is
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The Rankine's theory of earth pressure assumes that (a) the back face of the wall in contact with the soil backfill is smooth. ... In the Rankine's active state, the failure plane within the soil backfill makes an angle with the horizontal given as (a) 45°.
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Rankine theory. Rankine's Theory assumes that failure will occur when the maximum principal stress at any point reaches a value equal to the tensile stress in a simple tension specimen at failure. This theory does not take into account the effect of the other two principal stresses.
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