Retaining walls example 3 16 design of a cantilever retaining wall bs 8 110 the cantilever retaining wall shown below is backþlled with granular material having a unit weight of 19 knm 3 and an internal angle of friction of 30.
Reinforced concrete cantilever retaining wall design.
Assuming that the allowable bearing pressure of the soil is 120 knm 2 the.
Reinforced concrete cantilever retaining wall analysis and design aci 318 14 reinforced concrete cantilever retaining walls consist of a relatively thin stem and a base slab.
This guide describes the design and construction of gravity earth retaining.
This post will focus on the design of reinforced concrete cantilever walls.
The purpose of this article to design a low weight cantilever reinforced concrete retaining wall with shear key by using an optimization algorithm which is programmed in matlab.
Cantilever retaining wall is the most common type of earth retaining structure.
The base is divided into two parts the heel and toe.
Of reinforced concrete masonry cantilever retaining walls based on.
These design methods are discussed in detail in allowable stress design of concrete masonry tek 14 7a and strength design of concrete masonry tek 14 4a refs.
It is constructed of reinforced portland cement hellip.
Although retaining wall was the subject of the last post their design was not covered.
The stem may have constant thickness along the length or may be tapered based on economic and construction criteria.
Cantilever retaining wall are usually of reinforced concrete and work on the principles of leverage.
Recommended stem designs for reinforced cantilever retaining walls with no surcharge are contained in tables 1 and 2 for allowable stress design and strength design respectively.
N the design and construction rules set out in as 4678 2002 n an analysis method developed by the concrete masonry association of australia cmaa to fit australian experience.
Grey wolf optimization gwo is an optimization technique which is developed by mimicking hierarchy and hunting methods of grey wolves.