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Reinforced Concrete Cantilever Retaining Walls:  
Retaining Wall Design 
Coulombs-Rankine Formula
  • Calculate active earth pressure coefficient, earth pressure, horizontal resultant and moment.
 
Uniform load soil surcharge
  • Calculate the earth pressure horizontal resultant from a uniform load surcharge.
Point load soil surcharge
  • Calculate the earth pressure horizontal resultant from a point load surcharge.
Strip load soil surcharge
  • Calculate the earth pressure horizontal resultant from a strip load surcharge.
Ramp load soil surcharge
  • Calculate the earth pressure horizontal resultant from a ramp load surcharge.
Triangle load soil surcharge
  • Calculate the earth pressure horizontal resultant from a triangle load surcharge.
Line load soil surcharge
  • Calculate the earth pressure horizontal resultant from a line load surcharge.
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.
Wedge method
  • Calculate soil pressure resultant with or without a surface surcharge by the approximate wedge method.
Trial retaining wall design section
  • Create a concrete cantilever retaining wall trial design section.
Resistance to sliding - no key
  • Calculate the resistance to sliding for a retaining wall without a keyed base.
Resistance to sliding - key
  • Calculate the resistance to sliding for a retaining wall with a keyed base.
Eccentricity, max and min soil pressure
  • Calculate the eccentricity, maximum and minimum soil pressure beneath the base of a retaining wall.
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.
Check bearing capacity
  • Check the bearing capacity of a concrete cantilever retaining wall.
Stem section reinforcement
  • Calculate the distance to steel and the area of steel reinforcement for the stem section of a concrete cantilever retaining wall.
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.
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.
Stem steel development length
  • Calculate the development length for the steel reinforcement of the stem section of a concrete cantilever retaining wall.
Design Problem 1
  • Calculate the lateral earth force acting on a retaining wall using the wedge method.
Design Problem 2
  • Calculate the lateral earth force acting on a retaining wall using the Rankine Formula.
Design Problem 3
  • Check the sliding resistance for a retaining wall.
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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