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Retaining Walls
Introduction
Toe
Shear Key
Heel
Wall
Soil on Toe
Footin
g
Shear Key
Soil
on
Heel
Active
Lateral
Soil
Pressur
e
Reactions
ACTUAL FRICTION
is not the same as
FRICTION
CAPACITY!
Passive
Lateral Soil
Pressure
Friction
Vertical
Reaction
Resolve applied
forces into a
concentric vertical
force and moment
on the contact area.
Ix = bL3/12
A = bL
c = L/2
max = P/A + Mc/Ix
min = P/A Mc/Ix
P
M
Sliding
Vslide = Driving
Force = Demand
Vresist = sum(Resisting
Forces) = Capacity
FS = Vresist / Vslide
Driving
Force
Resisting
Capacity
Design for
FS > 1.5
Friction CAPACITY = N
Not Actual Friction Reaction
Overturning
MOT = Driving
Force*arm = Demand
MROT = sum(Resisting
Moments) = Capacity
Resistin
g
Forces
FS = MROT / MOT
Design for
FS > 2.0
Point of
Rotatio
Driving
Force
Draw FBDs
Stem
Toe
Heel
Stem Diagrams
FBD
n
ma
De
d
an
Capacity
Capacity
Make
stem
thick
enough
for
shear
Dem
d
Add
T&S
Steel
Momen
t
Shear
Toe
Vu can be
calculated a
distance d from
face of wall since
there is a
compressive
reaction with the
wall.
Add T&S
Steel
Design Shear
Flexural Steel
extends a
development
length into
the heel and
should
develop
within the
length of the
toe.
Shear
Mu is computed
at the face of the
wall.
Design Moment
Moment
Heel
Vu must be
calculated at the
face of wall since
there is a tensile
reaction with the
wall.
Mu is computed
at the face of the
wall.
Flexural Steel
extends a
development
length into
the toe and
should
develop
within the
length of the
heel.
Shear
Add T&S
Steel
Design Shear
Design Moment
Moment