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Types of Retaining Walls

There are several types of retaining walls that can be used including gravity walls, reinforced walls, reinforced soil walls, and hybrid systems. Gravity walls rely on their weight to resist pressures while reinforced walls use reinforcement bars. Reinforced soil walls include mechanically stabilized earth walls that use soil reinforcement and reinforcing bars. Hybrid systems combine mass with reinforcement for stability. Specific wall types include cantilever walls, counterfort walls, soil-nailed walls, anchored earth walls, and sheet pile walls.

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Types of Retaining Walls

There are several types of retaining walls that can be used including gravity walls, reinforced walls, reinforced soil walls, and hybrid systems. Gravity walls rely on their weight to resist pressures while reinforced walls use reinforcement bars. Reinforced soil walls include mechanically stabilized earth walls that use soil reinforcement and reinforcing bars. Hybrid systems combine mass with reinforcement for stability. Specific wall types include cantilever walls, counterfort walls, soil-nailed walls, anchored earth walls, and sheet pile walls.

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ASSIGNMENT IN FOUNDATION

ENGINEERING

DIFFERENT TYPES OF RETAINING WALL

PENAOJAS, ALLEN P. ENGR. NOEL T. MASCARIA

2012-04532-MN-0
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RETAINING WALL
A retaining wall is a structure that retains (holds back) any material (usually earth) and
prevents it from sliding or eroding away. It is designed so that to resist the material pressure of the
material that it is holding back.

Types of Retaining Walls

An earth retaining structure can be considered to have the following types:

1. Gravity Walls
Reinforced Gravity Walls
1. Concrete Cantilever retaining wall
2. Counter-fort / Buttressed retaining wall
3. Precast concrete retaining wall
4. Pre-stressed retaining wall
2. Brick
3. Brick Masonry retaining wall
4. Stone
5. Reinforced Soil Walls
Reinforced Soil
Soil Nailing
6. Hybrid System
Anchored Earth
Tailed Gabion
Tailed Concrete Block
Miscellaneous

Gravity Retaining Walls

It is that type of retaining wall that relies on their huge weight to retain the material behind it
and achieve stability against failures. Gravity Retaining Wall can be constructed from concrete, stone
or even brick masonry. Gravity retaining walls are much thicker in section. Geometry of these walls
also helps them to maintain the stability. Mass concrete walls are suitable for retained heights of up to
3 m. The cross section shape of the wall is affected by stability, the use of space in front of the wall,
the required wall appearance and the method of construction.

Reinforced Retaining Walls

Reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry walls on spread foundations are gravity structures
in which the stability against overturning is provided by the weight of the wall and reinforcement bars
in the wall. The following are the main types of wall:
Concrete Cantilever retaining wall

A cantilever retaining wall is one that consists of a wall which is connected to foundation. A
cantilever wall holds back a significant amount of soil, so it must be well engineered. They are the
most common type used as retaining walls. Cantilever wall rest on a slab foundation. This slab
foundation is also loaded by back-fill and thus the weight of the back-fill and surcharge also stabilizes
the wall against overturning and sliding.

Counter-fort / Buttressed retaining wall

Counterfort walls are cantilever walls strengthened with counter forts monolithic with the back
of the wall slab and base slab. The counter-forts act as tension stiffeners and connect the wall slab
and the base to reduce the bending and shearing stresses. To reduce the bending moments in
vertical walls of great height, counterforts are used, spaced at distances from each other equal to or
slightly larger than one-half of the height Counter forts are used for high walls with heights greater
than 8 to 12 m.

Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls

Mechanically stabilized earth walls are those structures which are made using steel
or Geotextiles soil reinforcements which are placed in layers within a controlled granular fill.
Reinforced soils can also be used as retaining walls, if they are built as:

1. As an integral part of the design


2. As an alternative to the use of reinforced concrete or other solutions on the grounds of
economy or as a result of the ground conditions
3. To act as temporary works
4. As remedial or improvement works to an existing configuration.
This category covers walls which use soil, reinforced with reinforcing bars, to provide a stable earth
retaining system and includes reinforced soil and soil nailing.

Soil Nailing

Constructing a soil nailed wall involves reinforcing the soil as work progresses in the area
being excavated by the introduction of bars which essentially work in tension, called Passive Bars.
These are usually parallel to one another and slightly inclined downward. These bars can also work
partially in bending and in shear. The skin friction between the soil and the nails puts the nails in
tension.

Hybrid Systems

The type of retaining walls that use both factors that is their mass and reinforcement for
stability are called Hybrid or Composite retaining wall systems.

Anchored Earth walls

Any wall which uses facing units tied to rods or strips which have their ends anchored into the
ground is an anchored earth wall. The anchors are like abutments. The cables used for tying are
commonly high strength, pre-stressed steel tendons. To aid anchorage, the ends of the strips are
formed into a shape designed to bind the strip at the point into the soil.

Tailed Gabion

Gabions are cages, cylinders, or boxes filled with earth or sand that is used in civil
engineering, road-building, and military application and many others. Or Gabion elements fitted to
geo-grid 'tails' extending into supported soil. For erosion control caged rip-rap are used. For dams or
foundation building, metal structures are used.

Sheet Pile Walls

Steel sheet pile walls are constructed by driving steel sheets into a slope or excavation up to
the required depth. Their most common use is within temporary deep excavations. They are
considered to be most economical where retention of higher earth pressures of soft soils is required.
It cannot resist very high pressure.

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