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Retaining Wall Masonry

The document provides information for designing a retaining wall including dimensions, material properties, and calculations. It includes the height, slopes, widths, weights, pressures, and factors of safety for sliding and overturning for the wall and footing.

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Retaining Wall Masonry

The document provides information for designing a retaining wall including dimensions, material properties, and calculations. It includes the height, slopes, widths, weights, pressures, and factors of safety for sliding and overturning for the wall and footing.

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Angle of internal friction of Backfill =

Unit wt. Of backfill soil =


Unit wt. Of concrete, =
Coefficient of friction b/w concrete & sub-soil

30 Deg.
120 PCF.
150 PCF.
0.4

0.52356 Radianns
0.12 Kcf.
0.15 Kcf.
Input Data Block

Height of the wall, h


Top width of the wall, B1
Base width of the wall, B2
Width of Heel, Bh
Width of Toe, Bt
Thickness of the Footing, Tfooting

15.33 ft.
1 ft.
3.28084 ft.
4.265
6.5617
1.5 ft.

Coefficient of active earth pressure, Ka, =(1-sin t)/(1+sin t)

0.333363

Distance to the Toe from Wall Stem Rectangular Portion


Distance to the toe from Wall stem Triangular Portion
Distance to the toe from the center Backfill Triangular Portion
Distance to the toe from the center Backfill rectangular Portion

7.0617
8.32198
9.08226
11.97504

Wt. Of the Wall's Rectangular Portion, W wall-rect

ft.
ft.
ft.
ft.

2.2995 K/ft.

Wt. Of the Wall's Triangular portion, W wall-triang

2.622396

Wt. Of the Footing, W footing

3.174197 K/ft.

Wt. Of backfill soil on the footing, Triangular Portion W bf-triang,

2.097917 K/ft.

Wt. Of backfill soil on the footing, Rectangular Portion W bf-rect,

7.845894 K/ft.

Total wt. Of the structure and backfill soil, Wt

18.0399 K/ft.

Total earth pressure, Pa

4.700597 K/ft.

F.O.S. Against sliding,

1.535116 OK

F.O.S. Against overturning,

7.221496 OK

Distance of Resultant of Applied Loads, R, from Toe = g =

ft.
8.283893

Totally in Compression

Project: High-Head Hydropower Complex Project (Indus Tributories)


Engineer: A.Hakeem, Senior Design Engineer
Angle of internal friction of Backfill =
Unit wt. Of backfill soil =
Unit wt. Of Masonry, =
Coefficient of friction b/w concrete & sub-soil
Coefficient of friction b/w masonry and concrete

30 Deg.
120 PCF.
150 PCF.
0.45
0.6
mm
5500
750

Total Height of the wall, h


18.045
Top width of the wall, B1
2.461
Slope of front face, S1 (1 in n,k etc.)
3
Slope of back face, S2
Note: For vertical faces input a large value
6
say, 100,000 or more.
Width of Heel, and Toe Bh=Bt
(mm)
150 0.492126
mm
Thickness of the Footing, Tfooting
225
0.738

0.52356 Radianns
0.12 Kcf.
0.15 Kcf.
Top Width
750

ft.
ft.

Front
Face

ft.
ft.

Back
Face

1H:3V

1H:6V
5500

Coefficient of active earth pressure, Ka, =(1-sin t)/(1+sin t)

0.333

Distance to Toe of the footing from Wall Stem fron triangle


Distance to toe of the footing from Wall stem Rectangle
Distance to toe of the footing from wall back triangle

4.502 ft.
7.737 ft.
9.970 ft.

Distance to Toe of the wall from Wall Stem fron triangle


Distance to toe of the wall from Wall stem Rectangle
Distance to toe of the wall from wall back triangle

4.010 ft.
5.240 ft.
7.473 ft.

1833

Distance to toe of the footing from center of Backfill Triangular Portion


Distance to toe of the footing from center Backfill rectangular Portion

10.973 ft.
12.221 ft.

Distance to the toe from the center Backfill Triangular Portion


Distance to the toe from the center Backfill rectangular Portion

10.480 ft.
11.729 ft.

917

3800

Wt. Of the Wall's front triangle, W wall-f-triangle

8.140 K/ft.

Wt. Of the Wall's rectangle, W wall-rect

6.660 K/ft.

Wt. Of the Wall's back triangle, W wall-b-triangle

4.070 K/ft.

Wt. Of the Footing, W footing

1.380 K/ft.

Wt. Of backfill soil on the footing, Triangular Portion W bf-triang,

3.256 K/ft.

Wt. Of backfill soil on the footing, Rectangular Portion W bf-rect,

1.066 K/ft.

Check at Toe of the Masonry Wall


Total Wt. Of the soil and Masonry
Total Earth Pressure
F.O.S. against sliding

22.127 K/ft.
6.513 K/ft.
F.O.S-Sliding-Wall Toe

Total Applied moment


Total Resisting Moment
F.O.S. against Overturning,

2.038
39.173 K-ft./ft.
132.084 K-ft./ft.

F.O.S-OT-Wall Toe

Distance of resultant of Applied loads from toe of Masonry wall,

3.372
4.199

Totally in Compression

Check at Toe of the Footing Wall


Total Wt. Of the soil, Masonry and Footing
Total Earth Pressure
F.O.S. against sliding

24.573 K/ft.
7.057 K/ft.
F.O.S-Sliding-Footing Toe

Total Applied moment


Total Resisting Moment
F.O.S. against Overturning,

1.567
44.180 K-ft./ft.
185.436 K-ft./ft.

F.O.S-OT-Footing Toe

4.197

Distance of resultant of Applied loads from toe of Masonry wall,

5.748

Totally in Compression

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