ABSTRACT
Earth pressure on retaining walls is one of the soil mechanics classical problems. In spite of intense theoretical and experimental research works over more than 200 years, there are still large discrepancies between experimental results and relevant theoretical solutions. The reason is the complexity of deformation field in granular bodies, especially near the wall, created by spontaneous emergence of shear localizations in a form of single or multiple narrow zones – the fundamental phenomenon characteristic for a granular material at shear deformation.
