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