Strip Load Surcharge Analysis using Elastic Methods UPDATED – Problem Solved… Here we will dig deeper into analyzing strip loads with elastic methods. First to avoid confusion between seeing similar equations which use different reference angles, we will set our own nomenclature.…
Category: Lateral Earth Pressure
Lateral earth pressures due to soil and surcharge loads on earth retention structures.
Surcharge Analysis – Elastic Methods
Analysis of Offset Surcharges on Retaining Walls Using Elastic Methods Offset surcharges are always up for some debate. Which method to use? What is the line of influence? Is the wall flexible or rigid? Well in this segment we will…
Trial Wedge Analysis
Trial Wedge Method Update: I will be updating this post or possibly creating a new post that demonstrates a simpler, clearer way to implement the trial wedge method. It should be completed by 2013/2/17. Update: I realized a couple of…
Lateral Earth Pressure II
This post is an extension of a previous post https://howtoengineer.com/retaining-wall-lateral-earth-pressure/ The spreadsheet will use the nomeclature found in NCMA’s Design Manual for Segmental Retaining Walls and Coulomb Theory. See here: Lateral Earth Pressure – Soil Basic 1 Geometry Sketch Also here is a…
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…
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…