Despite the many references a single volume on retaining wall design for the professional practitioner and civil engineering student could not be found.
How to design the key of a concrete retaing wall.
2 or reinforced concrete design handbooks.
Preliminary proportioning of cantilever retaining wall.
B short retaining walls vertical walls up to about 3m in height are usually built as shown in figure 1 b.
Of leveling sand and half the height of the first course of blocks.
M 16 at 406 mm o c.
The retaining wall is fixed to the reinforced concrete slab foundation with a shear key for sliding resistance.
X sk flexural reinforcement from stem is extended straight into shear key near the.
Based on our example in figure a 1 we have the forces due to soil pressure due to water and surcharge load to consider.
The thickness of base slab is h 12 or 8 of the height of wall surcharge.
Numerous textbooks and technical papers on soil mechanics foundation engineering concrete design masonry design and in all sorts of related topics.
Tall wall excavate a trench deep enough to accommodate 4 to 6 in.
5 bars at 16 in.
Stone crete is used for sound barrier walls retaining walls subdivision entry walls or wherever.
These consists of a concrete or masonry wall of uniform thickness vertical wall reinforcing and transverse footing reinforcing are all designed for the lateral shear and cantilever bending movement plus the vertical weights of the wall footing and earth fills.
For guidance see aci standard 318 ref.
Poured concrete retaining walls can also be decorative and reproduce the look of stone or masonry.
The design of the reinforced concrete footing and key should conform to american concrete institute requirements.
Cross section of a retaining wall a cinder block retaining wall is only as straight and solid as the base it s built on.
For economical design soil pressure resultant r must be in line with front face of wall.
Of compacted base 1 in.
Focuses on the analysis and design of a tapered cantilever retaining wall including a comparison with model results from the engineering software programs spwall and spmats.
How to build a concrete wall figure a.