The call often comes from a concerned homeowner or an attorney representing him in civil litigation.
Civil engineering retaining wall design.
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Design of counterfort retaining wall.
Retaining wall failures are almost always attributable to poor design or poor construction.
The thrust by the backing depends on several conditions such as cohesion of soil dryness of the backing material the manner in which the material is filled.
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The wall portion of the design is similar to the cantilever retaining wall the wall is fixed at the bottom to the grade beam but in addition to that the engineer has to make sure that the grade beam is sufficiently designed to take the moments and shears from the wall and pass it onto the piers.
Alternatively specifiers often require the wall engineering plans to be provided as part of the retaining wall construction package design build.
As a structural engineer i am frequently called upon to investigate and develop repairs for failed or failing earth retaining wall structures.
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Retaining wall design spreadsheet.
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Some site civil engineers choose to act as the engineer of record for retaining walls on their site and do the final wall plans in house.
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The thrust from the backing which tends to overturn the wall or causes it to slide is considered as the deciding factor in the selection of the section and type of the retaining wall.
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The design involves the determination of following parameters.