Reinforced Concrete Buttress Wall

Principles of retaining wall design.

Reinforced concrete buttress wall.

Types of reinforced concrete retaining wall and their components. Retaining wall retains earth when level difference exists between two surfaces. Retaining walls and soil reinforcement are at the heart of what we do. Buttresses can be built close to an exterior wall or built away from a wall.

By a basement wall i mean a wall with living space on one side and outside soil or other backfill on the other and a superstructure overhead. A gravity wall h 3m masonry or stone b cantilever wall h 3m and h 6m c counterfort wall h 8m d buttress wall transverse stem support provided on front side e e bridge abutment additional horizontal restraint from bridge deck a gravity wall h 3m masonry or stone. Every week hundreds of maccaferri solutions are implemented whether they are a small retaining walls in a housing development or a massive reinforced soil structure on a major highway. Cantilever retaining walls are constructed of reinforced concrete.

Design of cantilever retaining wall counterfort and buttress retaining wall deals with structural design. A buttress is a structure built to support or reinforce the height of a masonry wall. They consist of a relatively thin stem and a base slab the base is also divided into two parts the heel and toe the heel is the part of the base under the backfill. Surcharge on retaining walls earth pressure.