Geotechnical Engineering III C 7 P 2-Retaining walls with metallic Stirrups reinforcement---Bangla

Retaining structures such as retaining walls, basement walls, and bulkheads are commonly encountered in foundation engineering, and they may support slopes of earth mass. A retaining wall is a structure designed and constructed to resist the lateral pressure of soil when there is a desired change in ground elevation that exceeds the angle of repose of the soil. A basement wall is thus one kind of retaining wall.

Proper design and construction of these structures require a thorough knowledge of the lateral forces that act between the retaining structures and the soil mass being retained. Retaining walls are used to prevent the retained material from assuming its natural slope.

Retaining walls may be classified according to how they produce stability as reinforced earth, gravity wall, cantilever wall and anchored wall. At present, the reinforced earth structure is the most used, particularly for roadwork.

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