Seismic Passive Resistance of Retaining Walls with Submerged Backfill

A parametric analysis dataset investigating seismic passive earth resistance for retaining walls. The data was created by Dibyendu Sarkar and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on May 15, 2026.

Use Cases

• Sensitivity analysis of seismic passive resistance based on horizontal and vertical acceleration coefficients (k_h, k_v).
• Modeling the influence of pore water pressure conditions using the excess pore-water-pressure ratio (r_u).
• Assessing the impact of wall and soil geometry based on wall inclination (alpha) and friction angles (phi, delta).
• Evaluating the effect of material properties like cohesion (c) and adhesion (c_a) on seismic design.
• Analyzing dynamic response characteristics using the damping ratio (zeta) and lateral shaking period (T).

Strengths

• Explicitly models multiple key geotechnical variables, including seismic coefficients, pore pressure, and material properties.
• Data is openly available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• The parametric study design suggests a systematic exploration of variable interactions.

Limitations

• The dataset is small (328.8 KB), indicating limited scope or a summary of results rather than raw simulation data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the description after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely contains results from a computational parametric analysis.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 12:08:29; freshness should be verified.