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Rock - Shear Resistance Criteria

The shear strength is the basic criterion to determine the resisting passive forces. The resisting force is given by the following expression:

where:

τ

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shear strength on the slip surface

l

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length of the slip surface

The shear strength for the planar slip surface can be written as:

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