State active earth pressure behind a vertical wall, Civil Engineering

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With the aid of Mohr's circle diagram describe what means by active and passive Rankine states is in a cohesionless soil with a horizontal surface. As obtain an expression for the intensity of active earth pressure behind a vertical wall and determine why for this condition there is an implied assumption of smooth wall.

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