Cantilever Retaining Wall RESULTS Overturning (FS)T Sliding (FS)SLIDING Bearing Capacity (FS)B Eccentricity Eccentricity e INPUT Soil

data Void Ratio, e Porosity, n Specific Gravity, Gs Water Content, w Saturation, S Bulk unit weight, g f' f' Concrete-soil interaction factor (use in sliding) Active Earth Pressure KA PA PA,V PA,H Fx dA

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4.82

Design is OK with respect to overturning

2.22

Design is OK with respect to sliding

2.10

FS is less than 3, consider increasing the base width, B

0.26 m

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0.58 m Wall data

= B/6 INPUT External Load 4.6 m 0.4 0.6 0.6 3.5 m m m m Uniform load 10 kPa

0.667 0.400 2.700 10.0 40.5 17.5

Height of wall above footing bottom Thickness of wall at top of wall Thickness of wall at bottom of wall Footing thickness Footing base width, B Front of footing toe to wall distance Depth of soil in front of wall (to bottom of footing) Slope of backfill, b Height H0 Depth of shear key

% % KN/m3

Bearing capacity: Ng 22.46 smax 126.17 kPa Effective width 2.98 m 0.45352

0.3 m 0 m 0 4.6 m 0 m

32 degrees 0.56 radians 0.85 * f'

ig

0.307 56.8 0.0 56.8 14.1 1.69

(Rankine) KN/m KN/m KN/m KN/m m

Resultant Forces (includes W soil, W wall, W footing, PA, and PP) Rx 70.9 KN/m Ry 306.0 KN/m R 314.1 KN/m 76.95 degrees d (CCW from horizontal) r 1.49 m

Passive Earth Pressure KP,R PP,R dP

3.255 0.0 KN/m 0.0 m

thickness of top of wall

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b

g ba

ckfill

Weight of entire soil block and surcharge

toe to centroid distance s Weight of Concrete gconcrete c Wwall c(Wwall) Wbatter section c(Wbatter section) Wfooting c(Wfooting)

Rx and Ry are x and y components of the resultant force, R. R includes the active and passive forces, and the weights of the concrete and soil. The dimension r is the horizontal distance from the toe of the footing to the line of action of Ry.

Soil Properties: f', c=0, gmoist vertical wall

98.4 24 1.21 38.4 0.70 9.6 0.43 50.4 1.75

KN/m KN/m3 m KN/m m KN/m m KN/m m

s

PA
Active earth pressure diagram (schematic)

Passive earth pressure diagram (schematic)

Wsoil Wconcrete

depth of backfill in front of wall

dp

PP
Front of footing toe to wall distance width of bottom of wall

thickness of footing

dkey

Footing base width, B

Height of wall above footing bottom

Weights Weight of soil (block 1) Weight of soil (block 2) Weight of surcharge

0.0 181.6 26.0 207.6 2.20 1.30

KN/m KN/m KN/m KN/m m m

Rankine's Active Earth Pressure Coefficient

delta beta phi alpha 0.0 0 32.0 90.0 0.719 2.341 degrees degrees degrees degrees 0.0000 0.0000 0.5585 1.5708 radians radians radians radians

KA,C = KA,C

0.307 Rankine's Active Earth Pressure Coefficient

b
Soil with unit wt. = g , friction angle = f

d PA
a