Volume 6 – Geotechnical Manual, Site Investigation and Engineering ...

Chapter 7 RETAINING WALL
List of Tables
Table Description Page
7.1 Wall Displacements Required to Develop Active and Passive Earth Pressures
(Wu, 1975) 7-5
7.3 Calculation Table 7-24
7.4 Permissible Steel Stress of Sheet Pile 7-32
List of Figures
Figure Description Page
7.1 Forces Acting On Retaining Wall And Common Terminology 7-1
7.2 Type of Retaining Walls 7-2
7.3 State of Stress on a Soil Element Subjected to Stresses Induced by Wall
Deformation 7-3
7.4 The relationship between Ka, Kp, and Ko 7-4
7.5 Development of Rankine Active and Passive Failure Zones for a Smooth Retaining
Wall 7-6
7.7 Schematic Of Coulomb’s Theory Plane Failure Wedge of Soil 7-8
7.8 Comparison of Plane and Log-Spiral Failure Surfaces 7-10
7.9 Passive Coefficients for Sloping Wall with Wall Friction and Horizontal Backfill 7-11
7.10 Passive Coefficients for Vertical Wall with Wall Friction and Sloping Backfill 7-12
7.11 Lateral Pressure Coefficient Chart for Granular Soil with Sloping Backfill 7-13
7.12 General Distribution of Combined Active Earth Pressure and Water Pressure 7-14
7.13 Lateral Pressure Due to Surcharge Loadings (after USS Steel, 1975) 7-16
7.14 Potential Failure of a Rigid Retaining Wall 7-17
7.15 Design Criteria for Rigid Retaining Walls (NAVFAC 1986) 7-18
7.16 Typical Mode of Global Stability 7-20
7.17 Potential Source of Subsurface Water 7-22
7.19 Determining the Maximum and Minimum Pressures under the Base of the
Cantilever Retaining Wall 7-23
7.20 Typical Failure Mode of a Flexible Wall 7-25
7.21 Type of Sheet Pile Walls 7-27
7.22 Lateral Pressures Distribution for Fixed-End Method of Design of Cantilever
Sheet Pile Wall in Granular Soils 7-29
7.24 Various types of Anchoring for sheet pile walls 7-31
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