Abstract:
In the past four decades, civil engineering in general and structural
engineering in particular have achieved remarkable successes in adapting
successive generations of computational support technologies and devloping
Computational tools for specific process steps, notably analysis.
One of the problem areas is the problems associated with lateral earth
pressure and retaining wall stability. This segment of the soil mechanics has
been receiving wide spread attention from engineers for a long time, The
efforts to devise proc and formulate methodologies for analysis and design
for the effect of the earth pressure dates back to over three centuries. Many
of these theories developed by some of these early investigators serve as the
basis for the present day study of the retaining walls. In the view of the great
advantages occurring from the use of computers, like ease and promptness
in performing various complex calculations, they are being introduced in
every field of life. For Engineers, the computers have come as a big help.
Great leaps have been made in the field of engineering using computers. The
civil engineers are employing these machines in almost all of their Work.
The computers are accurate, precise and much faster in calculation and
adapted to the changes which may be linked for incorporating from time to
time. Thus the tedium of many calculations for any design
process,formulation of planes etc can be removed.
