Lateral Earth Pressure - Bell's Relationship

Bell's Relationship

For soils with cohesion, Bell developed an analytical solution that uses the square root of the pressure coefficient to predict the cohesion's contribution to the overall resulting pressure. These equations represent the total lateral earth pressure. The first term represents the non-cohesive contribution and the second term the cohesive contribution. The first equation is for an active situation and the second for passive situations.

Read more about this topic:  Lateral Earth Pressure

Famous quotes containing the words bell and/or relationship:

    ... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
    William James (1842–1910)

    Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)