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Author: Ryan Freund
Retaining Wall – Lateral Earth Pressure
Retaining Wall – Lateral Earth Pressure Update: For spreadsheets and more examples of calculating active and passive pressures see Lateral Earth Pressure II We will briefly discuss lateral earth pressure caused by soil weight and ground water effects. I’m not going to…
References by Subject
Various References by Subject I will try to include texts and other articles which I have found handy thus far in my ‘career’. I will update this from time to time as we cover more topics. Earth Retention and Soil…
General Earth Retention Design
Just like any other engineering problem it is wise to start with a free body diagram. This will help you get a feel for the loads and what we need to do to resist them. Then next thing is to…
Retaining Wall Offset Surcharges
Offset surcharges have provided me with some of my largest learning hurdles as a young engineer. We will spend some time discussing different design options when faced with an offset surcharge. We will not spend much time on uniform surcharges…
Wood Connections – Load Orientation and Capacity
Wood Connections and Load Orientation This is a brief summary of the different directions that a force may be applied to a wood fastener and the appropriate capacity equations to use based on the NDS (produced by American Wood Council) . If the load…