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The forces acting on the trial wedge which is used for finding Rankine’s active earth pressure is __________

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The forces acting on the trial wedge which is used for finding Rankine’s active earth pressure is __________

(a) Weight W of the wedge

(b) Resultant force

(c) Resultant reaction between wedge and sol

(d) All of the mentioned

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The above asked question is from Coulomb’s Wedge Theory in chapter Failure Envelopes & Earth Pressure of Geotechnical Engineering II

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Right choice is (d) All of the mentioned

Easiest explanation: The three forces acting on a trial wedge are: i) the resultant force that exist between the free body and the wall ii) the weight W of the wedge iii) the resultant reaction between the wedges and the rest of the soil along the surface.

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