Lateral Pressure – How To Engineer http://howtoengineer.com Engineers In Training Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:24:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.14 Retaining Wall Offset Surcharges https://howtoengineer.com/retaining-wall-offset-surcharges/ https://howtoengineer.com/retaining-wall-offset-surcharges/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:53:44 +0000 https://howtoengineer.com/?p=36 How To Engineer - Engineers In Training

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…

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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 as these are relatively straight forward. They are also covered extensively in texts and most importantly there is a a general consensus on how to evaluate the resulting lateral pressure. We will also provide some spreadsheets and written examples. We will also try a few video tutorials as well.

Upcoming Topics:

  1. We will first cover the basics of a uniform surcharge. Generally Fq=Ka*q*H.
  2. Elastic Methods – Point Load, Line Load, Strip Load, Area Load, with spreadsheet.
  3. Other approximate methods
  4. What is appropriate and when

 

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