Cantilever Retaining Wall

RESULTS
Overturning
(FS)T

4.82

Design is OK with respect to overturning

Sliding
(FS)SLIDING

2.22

Design is OK with respect to sliding

Bearing Capacity
(FS)B

2.10

FS is less than 3, consider increasing the base width, B

Eccentricity
Eccentricity e
INPUT

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0.26 m

<

0.58 m

= B/6

INPUT
Soil data

INPUT
External Load

Wall data

Void Ratio, e

0.667

Height of wall above footing bottom

4.6 m

Uniform load

Porosity, n
Specific Gravity, Gs
Water Content, w
Saturation, S

0.400
2.700
10.0
40.5

%
%

Thickness of wall at top of wall

Thickness of wall at bottom of wall
Footing thickness
Footing base width, B

0.4
0.6
0.6
3.5

Bearing capacity:
N
22.46
max
126.17 kPa

Bulk unit weight,

17.5

KN/m3

Front of footing toe to wall distance

0.3 m

32 degrees

'

0.56 radians

Concrete-soil interaction factor (use

in sliding)

0.85 * '

Fx
dA

Passive Earth Pressure

KP,R
PP,R
dP

3.255
0.0 KN/m
0.0 m

Weight of entire soil block and surcharge

toe to centroid distance

s
Weight of Concrete
concrete
c
Wwall
c(Wwall)
Wbatter section
c(Wbatter section)
Wfooting
c(Wfooting)

Effective width

0 m

2.98 m
0.45352

0
4.6 m

Depth of shear key

0 m

Resultant Forces (includes W soil, W wall, W footing, PA, and PP)

0.307
56.8
0.0
56.8
14.1
1.69

Weights
Weight of soil (block 1)
Weight of soil (block 2)
Weight of surcharge

10 kPa

(Rankine)
KN/m
KN/m
KN/m
KN/m
m

Rx
Ry
R
(CCW from horizontal)
r

70.9
306.0
314.1
76.95
1.49

KN/m
KN/m
KN/m
degrees
m

th ic k n e s s o f
to p o f w a ll

0.0
181.6
26.0
207.6
2.20
1.30

KN/m
KN/m
KN/m
KN/m
m
m

98.4
24
1.21
38.4
0.70
9.6
0.43
50.4
1.75

KN/m
KN/m3
m
KN/m
m
KN/m
m
KN/m
m

R x a n d R y a r e x a n d y c o m p o n e n ts o f
th e r e s u l ta n t fo r c e , R . R i n c lu d e s th e
a c ti v e a n d p a s s i v e fo r c e s , a n d th e w e ig h ts
o f th e c o n c re te a n d s o il. T h e d im e n s io n r
i s th e h o r i z o n ta l d is ta n c e fr o m th e to e o f th e
fo o tin g to th e lin e o f a c tio n o f R y .

H e ig h t o f w a ll a b o v e fo o tin g b o tto m

Active Earth Pressure

KA
PA
PA,V
PA,H

Depth of soil in front of wall (to

bottom of footing)
Slope of backfill,
Height H0

S o il P r o p e r tie s :
', c = 0 , m o i s t
v e r tic a l w a ll

P a s s i v e e a r th p r e s s u r e
d ia g r a m ( s c h e m a tic )

d e p t h o f b a c k f ill in
fr o n t o f w a ll

'

m
m
m
m

A
A c tiv e e a r th p r e s s u r e
d ia g r a m ( s c h e m a tic )

W s o il
W c o n c re te

PP

th ic k n e s s o f
fo o tin g

dkey
F r o n t o f fo o tin g to e
to w a ll d is ta n c e

w i d th o f b o t t o m
o f w a ll

F o o ti n g b a s e w i d th , B

Rankine's Active Earth Pressure Coefficient

delta
beta
phi
alpha

KA,C =
KA,C

0.0
0
32.0
90.0

degrees
degrees
degrees
degrees

0.0000
0.0000
0.5585
1.5708

radians
radians
radians
radians

0.719
2.341

0.307

Rankine's Active Earth Pressure Coefficient

S o i l w i t h u n i t w t . = ,
fr ic tio n a n g le =