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…
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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…