This guide describes the design and construction of gravity earth retaining.
Reinforced concrete cantilever retaining wall design.
The following worked example is for a free standing cantilever wall that is considered.
Cantilever concrete retaining walls are commonly used for residential purposes often as integral basement walls.
Design procedure overview 3.
The cantilevered wall rests on a slab foundation.
Cantilever retaining wall are usually of reinforced concrete and work on the principles of leverage.
Soil mechanics simplified 4.
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.
Earthquake seismic design 7.
Building codes and retaining walls 5.
They consist of a relatively thin stem and a base slab the base is also divided into two parts the heel and toe the heel is the part of the base under the backfill.
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.
They are the most common type used as retaining walls.
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 has much thinner stem and utilize the weight of the backfill soil to provide most of the resistance to sliding and overturning.
Counterfort retaining walls 12.
Cantilever retaining walls are constructed of reinforced concrete.
Grey wolf optimization gwo is an optimization technique which is developed by mimicking hierarchy and hunting methods of grey wolves.
Forces on retaining walls 6.
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.
Usually the cantilever wall stem is of concrete block construction rising from an in situ concrete foundation.
Assuming that the allowable bearing pressure of the soil is 120 knm 2 the.
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.
Pier and pile foundations 11.
A cantilevered wall holds back a significant amount of soil so it must be well engineered.
The base is divided into two parts the heel and toe.
Of reinforced concrete masonry cantilever retaining walls based on.
A cantilever retaining wall is one that consists of a wall which is connected to foundation.
Soil bearing and stability 8.
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.
Designing the cantilever wall stem 9.