3-30-95

FINAL
TRANS

REVIEW
FINAL
FINAL WATER STOP
CAD

300 300
3-24-95
COMNTS

5 5
TDOT

150

150
REC

3-10-95
TRANS

TDOT
CAD DW
REVIEW

WATER STOP DETAIL

7 7
CAD
TO

0 0
60 0 60
10
CAD DW
REVIEW

H 4 H 4

3 3
CAD
TO

GROUND LINE GROUND LINE

19 25 25
MARKUP
REVIEW

TOP OF WALL 300

2 2
INITIAL

MARKUP

300 300
REC/TDOT

CAD DWG

1-5-95

6 6

230 150 150

C C
4.5 m 4.5 m
B’ B’

B B

MASONRY GRAVITY RETAINING WALLS CONCRETE GRAVITY RETAINING WALLS

19 mm EXPANSION JOINT

75

18
100
GRAVITY WALL DIMENSION AND QUANTITY TABLE FOOTNOTES

100

64
3 3
H(m) B(m) B’(m) C(m) 1F(kPa)
T F
B (kPa) V
W (m /m) V
S (m /m)

0.6 0.30 0.00 0.000 29 0.186 1 DESIGN IS BASED ON ALLOWABLE BEARING STRESS AT BASE OF WALL BEING EQUAL

100
TO OR GREATER THAN F . WHEN ALLOWABLE BEARING STRESS IS LESS THAN F
T ,
0.9 0.51 41 0.371

18
T
AS DESIGNATED BY THE SOILS AND GEOLOGY SECTION, THEN A CLASS "A" CONCRETE
1.2 0.69 53 0.605
SPREADER IS TO BE USED. IF ALLOWABLE BEARING STRESS CAN BE ESTABLISHED
1.5 0.89 65 0.911
BY THE ENGINEER TO BE EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN F , THEN THE SPREADER IS
T
1.8 1.07 77 1.254 NOT REQUIRED.
2.1 1.24 89 1.653 KEY DETAIL
2.4 1.45 101 2.137

2.7 1.60 113 2.614

3.0 1.80 124 3.213

3.4 1.98 0.00 0.00 136 144 3.833

3.7 2.16 0.30 0.08 148 4.505 0.093

LEGEND
4.0 2.34 0.38 0.08 161 5.232 0.115

4.3 2.51 0.69 0.08 173 6.015 0.208

B = WIDTH AT BASE OF GRAVITY WALL N E S S
N
4.6 2.72 0.99 0.08 185 6.911 0.301 E E

E
4.9 2.90 1.30 0.10 197 7.804 0.394 B’ = WIDTH OF CLASS "A" CONCRETE SPREADER
5.2 3.07 1.63 0.15 209 8.752 0.497 METRIC
5.5 3.25 1.96 0.23 221 9.755 0.605

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5.8 3.43 2.34 0.30 233 10.811 0.712 D
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6.0 3.61 2.69 0.38 245 144 11.922 0.820

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GRAVITY-TYPE RETAINING WALLS GREATER THAN 1.8 m IN HEIGHT ARE GENERALLY

V = VOLUME OF CLASS "A" CONCRETE SPREADER
S STATE OF TENNESSEE
CONSIDERED UNECONOMICAL. USE OF GRAVITY WALLS SHALL BE DETERMINED BY COST
COMPARISONS WITH OTHER TYPES OF RETAINING WALLS AFTER ALLOWABLE BEARING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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