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AbstractEarth pressure theories occupy a paramount position in the field of geotechnical engineering. Passive earth pressure plays an important role in the design of retaining walls and anchors. Furthermore, it provides the resisting force used in modeling soil–structure interaction problems. In the literature, numerous reports can be found dealing with the passive earth pressure for cohesionless soil. The majority of these reports have used the Mohr-Coulomb criteria as the constitutive law governing the relationship between the passive earth pressures and the angles of shearing resistance of sand. Accordingly, the results obtained have displayed a wide range of discrepancies in the values of the coefficient of passive earth pressure, especially for the case of overconsolidated sand. This paper presents a numerical model for a retaining wall translating horizontally into a mass of sand and accordingly subjected to passive earth pressure. The model utilizes the finite-element technique, the constitutive la...