Retaining Walls Design Using ACI-318 Code

Learning Outcome 1

Students will learn the behavior of concrete retaining walls and how it resists different type of loads such as lateral earth pressure, water pressure, surcharge loads and earthquakes loads, we will go through a detailed illustration for all the three types of earth pressures (Active, Passive and at Rest) and the different calculation methods (Rankine and Coulomb’s) and when to use each of them, then we will go through the walls design checks regarding sliding, overturning and bearing capacity, all the above will be illustrated by many solved examples for better understating of the theories and how to apply it properly, the last chapter will deal with the seismic behavior of retaining walls during earthquakes and how to calculate the additional seismic forces acting on the walls.