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Reinforced Concrete Cantilever Retaining Walls:
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Retaining Wall Design |
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Coulombs-Rankine Formula |
- Calculate active earth pressure coefficient,
earth pressure, horizontal resultant and moment.
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Uniform load soil surcharge |
- Calculate the earth pressure horizontal
resultant from a uniform load surcharge.
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Point load soil surcharge |
- Calculate the earth pressure horizontal
resultant from a point load surcharge.
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Strip load soil surcharge |
- Calculate the earth pressure horizontal
resultant from a strip load surcharge.
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Ramp load soil surcharge |
- Calculate the earth pressure horizontal
resultant from a ramp load surcharge.
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Triangle load soil surcharge |
- Calculate the earth pressure horizontal
resultant from a triangle load surcharge.
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Line
load soil surcharge |
- Calculate the earth pressure horizontal
resultant from a line load surcharge.
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Slip plane angle |
- Calculate the slip plane angle of the soil for the soil pressure
wedge calculation, directly for noncohesive soils and by trial and error for
cohesive soils.
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Wedge method |
- Calculate soil pressure resultant with or
without a surface surcharge by the approximate wedge method.
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Trial retaining wall design section |
- Create a concrete cantilever retaining wall
trial design section.
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Resistance to
sliding - no key |
- Calculate the resistance to sliding for a retaining wall without
a keyed base.
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Resistance to sliding -
key |
- Calculate the resistance to sliding for a retaining wall with a
keyed base.
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Eccentricity, max and min
soil pressure |
- Calculate the eccentricity, maximum and minimum soil pressure
beneath the base of a retaining wall.
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Bearing pressure resultants |
- Calculate the bearing pressure resultants for the toe and heel
of a concrete cantilever retaining wall to be used in the reinforcement
calculations.
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Check bearing capacity |
- Check the bearing capacity of a concrete cantilever retaining
wall.
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Stem section reinforcement |
- Calculate the distance to steel and the area of steel
reinforcement for the stem section of a concrete cantilever retaining wall.
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Heel section reinforcement |
- Calculate the distance to steel and the area of steel
reinforcement for the heel section of the base of a concrete cantilever
retaining wall.
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Toe section reinforcement |
- Calculate the distance to steel and the area of the steel
reinforcement for the toe section of the base of a concrete cantilever retaining
wall.
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Stem steel development
length |
- Calculate the development length for the steel reinforcement of
the stem section of a concrete cantilever retaining wall.
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Design Problem 1 |
- Calculate the lateral earth force acting on a retaining wall using the wedge method.
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Design Problem 2 |
- Calculate the lateral earth force acting on a retaining wall using the Rankine Formula.
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Design Problem 3 |
- Check the sliding resistance for a retaining wall.
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Design Problem 4 |
- Check the resistance to sliding, the turnover stability, the bearing capacity and calculate the required areas of steel reinforcement for a proposed retaining wall.
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