Soil bearing and stability 8.
Reinforcement counterfort retaining wall design.
Thickness of counterfort 6 of height of wall.
Thickness of toe slab buttress not provided 8 of height of wall.
Forces on retaining walls 6.
This excel sheet introduces design of counterfort retaining wall according.
Pier and pile foundations 11.
The counter forts act as tension stiffeners and connect the wall slab and the base to reduce the bending and shearing stresses.
1 gravity wall masonry or plain concrete 2 cantilever retaining wall rcc inverted t and l 3 counterfort retaining wall rcc 4 buttress wall rcc.
Counter fort buttressed retaining wall.
Also check for shear at the junction.
Building codes and retaining walls 5.
Counterfort retaining wall rcc.
The ties are provided horizontally for the full value of reaction to prevent slab separating from counterforts.
Based on our example in figure a 1 we have the forces due to soil pressure due to water and surcharge load to consider.
However retaining walls can also be constructed for aesthetic landscaping purposes.
In no case thickness of any component be less than 300mm.
Design of counterfort retaining wall.
Design of toe slab the base width is approximately taken equal to 0 6 h to 0 7 h where h is the overall height of the wall.
Soil mechanics simplified 4.
Sketches of the retaining wall forces should be considered to properly distinguish the different forces acting on our retaining wall as tackled in the previous article retaining wall.
The toe is the other part of the base.
Earthquake seismic design 7.
The design of a retaining wall must account for all applied loads.
Designing the cantilever wall stem 9.
Thickness of heel slab and stem 5 of height of wall.
Classification of retaining walls.
The base is also divided into two parts the heel and toe.
They consist of a relatively thin stem and a base slab.
Counterfort retaining walls 12.
The counterfort retaining wall is a type of retaining wall with counterforts attached to the inside face of the wall to further resist lateral thrust and materials used for retaining walls are treated lumber concrete block systems stone brick and poured concrete.
Design example cantilever retaining wall.
The main reinforcement is provided horizontally along the length of the wall.
The heel is the part of the base under the backfill.
Cantilever retaining walls are constructed of reinforced concrete.
Design procedure overview 3.
Provide enough development length.
The loads that are of primary concern are the lateral earth pressures induced by the retained soil.
Provide the distribution steel.