Design of Earth Retaining Walls

Introduction

• Types of retaining walls
• Brief history of CP2, BS8002 and EC7
• Approach to design: stability and strength
  
  Earth Pressure
  
• KA, Ko and Kp: relationship of earth pressure to strain
• Coulomb's method
• Rankine's method
• Effects of wall friction and sloping ground
• Cohesive soils: Bell's method
• Effect of water pressure
• Effect of compaction pressures
• Effects of surcharge
  
  Limit States
  
• ULS and SLS
• Modes of failure
  
• Factors of safety
  
  Design of Gravity Retaining Walls
  
• Types of wall - mass concrete, brick, rc cantilever
• Virtual back of wall
• Calculations for stability
• Calculations for strengt
• Design Exercise 1
  
  Design of Embedded Retaining Walls
  
• Types of wall - sheet piles, contiguous piles, diaphragm walls
• Simple cantilever wall: gross pressure method, net pressure method etc.
  
• Calculations for stability and strength
• Anchored wall: gross pressure method, net pressure method etc
• Fixed and free end conditions
• Calculations for stability and strength
• Design Exercise 2
  
  Course Duration:

1 day (6 hours) IPD/CPD

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