Evaluation of the Static and Seismic Passive Lateral Earth Pressure for c-Soils using the Stress Characteristics Method

The Stress Characteristics Method (SCM) or slip line method is a rigorous method to solve geotechnical engineering problems. This method has been used in many geotechnical engineering problems. Although SCM has been used in previous researches to evaluate the seismic passive lateral earth pressure, however, previous researchers have not considered all of the parameters of cohesion and friction angle of the soil, soil-wall interface adhesion and friction angle, ground surface slope, wall slope, surcharge, stress discontinuity and horizontal and vertical pseudo-static seismic coefficients. In this study, all of the aforementioned parameters are considered and closed-form equations have been presented in the special cases.