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Many of the problems encountered in Soil Mechanics are of the extreme-value type. Such problems are, e.g., the stability of slopes, the bearing capacity of foundations, the limiting forces (active and passive) acting on retaining structures, etc.
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Garber et al. (1979) studied this question.
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