Abstract
With two different distributions of matric suction, the unified solution of passive earth pressure for unsaturated soils is obtained, which is based on the unified shear strength for unsaturated soils in terms of two independent state stress variables and could avoid some shortages of Rankine's passive earth pressure. The influence of intermediate principal stress and matric suction on passive earth pressure is discussed. The results show that the passive earth pressure increases significantly with the unified strength theory parameter or matric suction increasing, and does not change more rapidly when matric suction decreases linearly with depths than that is constant.
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