As per Rankine’s theory of earth pressure, the inclination of failure planes is (45 + \frac{\phi }{2}) ^{ \circ } with respect to the direction of the minor principal stress. The above statement is correct for which one of the following options?

Correct Answer is : Both active as well as passive states

Only the active state and not the passive state

Only the passive state and not the active state

Both active as well as passive states

Neither active nor passive state

GATE Civil Engineering (CE) 2022 Shift 1 Solved Paper

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As per Rankine’s theory of earth pressure, the inclination of failure planes is

(45 + \;{φ\;}/{2}) ^{ ∘ }

with respect to the direction of the minor principal stress. The above statement is correct for which one of the following options?

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