02-27-2009, 01:43 PM
The wall had a height of 2,80 meters, and had to cover a 14 metres length overall.
The model that I established was a beam of 3,15 meters high by 0,30 meters of thickness (the slab superior was 25 cm), with two intermediate supports on small caps for a single pile.
On the face of the beam that received the push of the embankment, I placed a lateral load equivalent to the load of the land, to a height of a third of the base of the beam. Like the model it was to solve it like a simple beam, like a simplified model, I replaced the lateral load by a equivalent torsion load.
When I calculating the beam of the indicated section, I had values of reinforcement similar to the obtained ones later, with the use of a software for retainin walls.
Until the moment neither cracks neither problems of deformation in that beam have been reported, almost six years later.
The model that I established was a beam of 3,15 meters high by 0,30 meters of thickness (the slab superior was 25 cm), with two intermediate supports on small caps for a single pile.
On the face of the beam that received the push of the embankment, I placed a lateral load equivalent to the load of the land, to a height of a third of the base of the beam. Like the model it was to solve it like a simple beam, like a simplified model, I replaced the lateral load by a equivalent torsion load.
When I calculating the beam of the indicated section, I had values of reinforcement similar to the obtained ones later, with the use of a software for retainin walls.
Until the moment neither cracks neither problems of deformation in that beam have been reported, almost six years later.