Live Load Retaining Wall

In the conventional design of retaining walls and bridge abutments the lateral earth pressure due to live load surcharge is estimated by replacing the actual highway loads with a 600 mm layer of backfill.

Live load retaining wall. The weight of a building or another retaining wall above and set back from the top of the wall are examples of dead load surcharges. The walls are used in a variety of applications se including right of way restrictions protection of existing structures that must remain in place. Dc the self weight of structural components. Surcharge loads acting on retaining wall.

For crib walls for extreme event limit state i live load surcharge is not considered where. Construction since it is the most critical section of wall stem in wall design. Chapter 14 retaining walls july 2020 14 7 14 1 introduction retaining walls are used to provide lateral resistancefor a mass of earth or other material to accommodate a transportation facility. Ev the self weight of the soil above the heel of a footing in a semi gravity retaining wall or of the reinforced soil in a mse.

Eqe dynamic. Retaining wall to support a cut. Retaining wall design the applicable train live load surcharge is the cooper e80 which can be approximated as 1 880 pounds per square foot per foot psf ft of rail. The train live load surcharge may greatly.

Retaining wall to support a fill. Steel has very high tensile strength but can bend easily due to its small cross section. For comparison this surcharge is significantly larger than highway live load surcharge which is typically simplified to 250 psf ft. Traffic and street traffic for temporary shoring design adjacent to the public way.

Eh static soil lateral load. It can be either dead loads for example sloping backfill above the wall height or live load which could result from the highway or parking lot paving or adjacent footing. Missing concrete or pool consolidation and foreign object intrusion in the wall base section will reduce support to the steel and can cause wall failure. Each of these walls must be designed to resist the external forces applied to the wall from earth pressure surcharge load water earthquake etc.

Surcharge loads acting on retaining walls are additional vertical loads that used to the backfill soil above the top of the wall. Ls live load surcharge. Design relationships table 1 summarizes the influence of increasing the wall batter increasing the unit width increasing the unit s in place density and using better quality backfill on the maximum.