ABSTRACT
Retaining walls are structures used in providing stability for earth or materials where conditions this allow the materials from summing its natural slope or stability.
There are many factors affecting or militating against the stability of retaining walls. These includes the level of water table behind the wall, size of the base of the wall and nature of the soil retained.
Under these effects of he nature of soil. We have the angle of internal content between the particles, the cohesion which is the bodily contact or binding of the soil particles and the unit weight of the soil(density.)
It is these different parameters that have been considered individually with different values of height in this study.
TABLE CONTENTS
Introduction
Notations used
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
Retaining walls
Cantilever RW
Rankin theory
Forces on cantilever RW
Counterfort RW
Forces on counterfort RW
The gravity rw
Forces on gravity rw
CHAPTER TWO
Stability of retaining wall
Soil properties of Retaining Walls
Drainage in RW
Allowable bearing capacity
CHAPTER THREE
Procedure for the design of retaining walls
Analysis example
Formwork in retaining walls
CHAPTER FOUR
Design Of Cantilever Retaining Wall
NOTATION USED IN THIS PROJECT
1. Angle of internal friction of soil O
2. Unit weight of sol -&
3. Sat unit wt - &sat
4. sauntered unit wt - &sub
5. Overturning moment - Mo
6. Base width of container wall - B
7. Overall height of wall - H
8. Effective height of wall - He
9. Height of stem - h
10. Effective depth - d
11. Overall depth - d
12. Weight stem - we
13- Weight soil - ws
14. Surcharge - S
15. Active pressure on wall - Pa
16. Passive pressure on wall - Pp
