Basics of Retaining Wall Design By Hugh Brooks
A guide for the practising engineer
Contents of Basics of Retaining Wall Design By Hugh Brooks
- Why This Book ?
- About Retaining Walls; Terminology
- Design Procedure Overview
- Soil Mechanics Simplified
- Building Codes and Retaining Walls
- Force on Retaining Walls
- Earthquake (Seismic) Design
- Cantilever Stem Wall Designed
- Soil Bearing and Stability
- Footing Design
- Pier and Pile Foundations
- Counterfort Retaining Walls
- Cantilevered Tilt-up Walls
- Gravity Walls
- Gabion Walls
- Segmental Retaining Walls
- Swimming Pool Walls
- Pilaster Masonry Walls
- Restrained (Non Yielding) Walls
- Sheet Pile Walls
- Soldier Pile Walls
- Why Retaining Walls Fail ?; Effective Fixes
- Construction Topics and Caveats
- Design Examples
Appendix
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