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The document discusses seismic design considerations for two retaining walls and evaluates liquefaction potential at various depths below ground level for two soil profiles. It also requests derivation of an expression for dynamic displacement of a single degree of freedom system subjected to periodic loading.

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Geotech Tutorial Phase-2

The document discusses seismic design considerations for two retaining walls and evaluates liquefaction potential at various depths below ground level for two soil profiles. It also requests derivation of an expression for dynamic displacement of a single degree of freedom system subjected to periodic loading.

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Seismic Design of Retaining Walls

1. A retaining wall has 4.20m height above the lower ground level. It has a base at 2.00m below
lower ground level. The Base width is 3.00m having clear Toe = 0.60m. The Stem, Heel & Toe
are all 0.40m thick. The soil retained is sand with unit weight of 18 kN/m3 and angle of internal
friction = 32°. Coefficient of friction at base is 0.50 and safe bearing capacity of soil is 200
kN/m2. Check the stability of wall given that horizontal earthquake acceleration coefficient is
0.08 and dynamic active earth pressure coefficient is 0.37.

2. A retaining wall has 3.00m height above the lower ground level. It has a base at 1.50m below
lower ground level. The Base width is 2.10m having clear Toe = 0.60m. The thickness of Stem
at bottom and top is 350mm and 230mm respectively and thickness of base is 350mm uniform.
The soil retained is sand with unit weight of 18 kN/m3 and angle of internal friction = 30°.
Coefficient of friction at base is 0.55 and safe bearing capacity of soil is 200 kN/m2. Check the
stability of wall given that horizontal earthquake acceleration coefficient is 0.08 and dynamic
active earth pressure coefficient is 0.42.

Liquefaction

1. Determine Liquefaction Potential at the depth of 2m, 4m, 6m, 8m, 10m and 12m for the
following data. The density of soil as 20 kN/m3. Groundwater table exist at 2.50m below

existing ground level. The peak horizontal acceleration at the ground surface, amax was found

to be 0.20g for an earthquake of magnitude 8.00. Assume magnitude scaling factor for
magnitude 8.00 as 0.84

Depth below GL (m) 2.00 4.00 6.00 8.00 10.00 12.00

Soil Type SM SM CH SM CH SM

(N1)60 (Corrected) 10 14 11 15 16 18

Given that:
CRR7.5 = 1 / [34 - (N1)60] + (N1)60 / 135 + 50 / [10 x (N1)60 + 45]2 - 2/200

CSR = 0.65 x (amax/g) x (σ/ σ’) * rd

rd = 1.0 – 0.00765 Z, for Z < 9.15m


= 1.174 – 0.0267 Z, for 9.15m < Z < 23m
2. Determine Liquefaction Potential at the depth of 2m, 4m, 6m, 8m, 10m and 12m for the
following data. The density of soil as 18 kN/m3. Groundwater table exist at 5.00m below

existing ground level. The peak horizontal acceleration at the ground surface, amax was found

to be 0.18g for an earthquake of magnitude 8.50. Assume magnitude scaling factor for
magnitude 8.50 as 0.72

Depth below GL (m) 2.00 4.00 6.00 8.00 10.00 12.00

Soil Type SM SM CH SM SC SM

(N1)60 (Corrected) 9 12 11 16 17 20

Given that:
CRR7.5 = 1 / [34 - (N1)60] + (N1)60 / 135 + 50 / [10 x (N1)60 + 45]2 - 2/200

CSR = 0.65 x (amax/g) x (σ/ σ’) * rd

rd = 1.0 – 0.00765 Z, for Z < 9.15m


= 1.174 – 0.0267 Z, for 9.15m < Z < 23m
Dynamic Response of SDOF System subjected to Periodic Loading

Derive the expression of dynamic displacement for a SDOF system subjected to a periodic
force shown in Figure.

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