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Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

14.

Coulomb's wedge theory assumes that

back fill is dry, cohesionless, homogeneous and isotropic

slip surface is the plane which passes through the heel of the wall

sliding wedge itself acts as a rigid body and the value of earth pressure is obtained by considering the limiting equilibrium of the wedge

position and direction of the resultant earth pressure, are known

all the above.

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