Any way to reinforce an under-designed retaining wall?
Any way to reinforce an under-designed retaining wall?
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The structural engineer on our project just told me he way under-designed his retaining wall. He apparently plugged wrong data into his computer program. It's an 8-12 feet high wall with a backfill slope above the wall of at least 1.5H:1V, so loads are pretty high. I'm thinking maybe a few feet of concrete backfill placed in lifts and allowed to cure between lifts. Also maybe perpendicular deadmem walls, but then we're in a restrained case. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.





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Any chance of tiebacks or soil nailing (easements required?)to reinforce the wall. Any recommendations from your geotech?
Counterfort walls might help the stem wall depending on the stem wall steel placement and size, but probably not the soil pressures.
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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You can always put struts in front until some improvement can be made.
My old reinforced concrete design prof made the comment once. At least get steel in there and you will be surprised what seems to work.
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