She is a great structural engineer that has designed buildings, bridges, power plants, and more throughout the country. Her complete bio can be found below this epic post. Today's post is a guest post done by a friend, RG Spaulding, PE over at StructuralCE. It also emphasizes that what we do on paper is not just a math problem, it is actually a structure that will be built and care should be given as to how best to design it to prevent failure. In this video the soil behind the wall is granular soil. This video perfectly shows the failure plane that forms at an angle behind the wall. The video is courtesy of the British Geological Survey. A common example of a retaining wall in everyday life is basement walls, swimming pool walls, and landscape walls.īefore we discuss how to design retaining walls, I want you to watch a simple but excellent video of how the soil fails behind the retaining wall. The material could be earth, water, anything else that needs to be retained. Retaining walls are as the name suggests any wall that is designed to retain any material.
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