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Retaining Wall Craig Book Example
Retaining Wall Craig Book Example
Retaining Wall Craig Book Example
Wall Configuration Wall Name Height Base Unit Weight of Wall Angle of wall and backfill Backfill Soil Params C Unit Weight Friction Between Wall and backfill Friction Between Wall and Foundation Calculation of Forces From Back Fill Ka Pa Vertiacal Distance to Pa Angle of Pa With Horizontal Calculation of Rv and Rh
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0.627407636 203.2800742 2 35
Area of wall
Lever Arm Weight of wall from heel Ka Pa Hor-Pa Lever arm 9.40 220.90 1.30 0.63 203.28 166.52 2.00 2.68 63.07 0.91 0.63 35.29 28.91 2.00
Lever arm base Resultant from Eccentricity of base R Ver-Pa LverArm Rh Mh Rv Mv Total M heel) 116.60 0.35 166.52 333.03 337.50 328.29 661.32 1.96 0.58 20.24 0.35 28.91 57.82 83.32 64.54 122.35 1.47 0.09
Max bearing Min bearing FOS Reditributed pressure pressure Sliding Stress 279.23 -33.78 0.95 284.63 36.48 24.11 1.34 43.34
Rankin Theory
Wall Configuration Wall Name Height Base Unit Weight of Wall Angle of wall and backfill Backfill Soil Params C Unit Weight Friction Between Wall and backfill Friction Between Wall and Foundation Calculation of Forces From Back Fill Ka Pa Vertiacal Distance to Pa Angle of Pa With Horizontal Calculation of Rv and Rh
craig page 208 Water table below foundation 9.5 9.5 3 0 23.5 90 30 0 18
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Weight of wall Lever Arm Ka Pa Hor-Pa Lever arm 105.75 1.41 0.33 243.00 243.00 3.17 63.07 0.91 0.33 18.75 18.75 3.17
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Lever arm base Resultant from Eccentricity of base R Ver-Pa LverArm Rh Mh Rv Mv Total M heel) 0.00 0.00 243.00 769.50 105.75 149.11 918.61 8.69 7.19 0.00 0.00 18.75 59.38 63.07 57.40 116.77 1.85 0.35
Max bearing Min bearing FOS Reditributed pressure pressure Sliding Stress 541.91 -471.41 0.25 -12.40 35.80 6.25 1.94 36.61