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This chapter discusses safety against hydraulic heave failure and piping (ground failure due to internal erosion). In homogenous soil, all potential hydraulic heave failure planes start at the base of the structure. In a hydraulic heave failure, a body of earth in front of a structure is subjected to uplift force due to groundwater flow. This effect reduces the passive earth pressure. The danger of...
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