Section 12 Outline

  • Introduction
    • Types of Retaining Walls
    • Types of Retaining Wall Failures 
  • Retaining Wall Design and Analysis
    • Pressure-approach design
      • oStatic: Rankine and Coulombs Theories
      • oSeismic: M-O Method, Steedman-Zeng Method
    • Displacement-approach design
      • oSeismic: Richard and Elms Method
    • Stress-deformation analysis