Textbook on retrofit of earth retention walls
Textbook on retrofit of earth retention walls
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Can you recommend me a good textbook on retrofit and strengthening of earth retention walls? I need something more graphic - with examples and different design approaches rather than just calculations.





RE: Textbook on retrofit of earth retention walls
The preferred option of repair depends on what is failing. If it is geotechnical failure, it is most likely drainage, unsuitable backfill or unsuitable supporting soils. Refer to Books by Bowles, Azizi, Tschebotarioff and Jumiks. If it is structural failure, it is most likely bending, undersized sections, inadequate embedment or too little reinforcement.
The best thing to do is to find someone who is designing retrofit/repair plans and calculations and ask them to mentor you- may be work for them part-time. It just take many years to understand it. Even then, the "expert" might have weakness in the geotechnical end or the substructural side of things. So spend most of your energy in understanding lateral earth pressures.
ASCE used to have earth retention seminar, may be it is still available?
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Do you have photos of the cracks that you can attach? And did you do any geotechnical investigation?
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RE: Textbook on retrofit of earth retention walls
In the work of a detailed survey, also measure the "out-of-plumb" degrees of the face in several locations, or mm inclination per meter. All of these recordings are for the purpose of getting information for locating and then resolving the problem, It may take some time.
RE: Textbook on retrofit of earth retention walls
whoops. my use of Metric is bad. That 5 mm should have been 50 mm. Over here my measurements are inches, sorry.
RE: Textbook on retrofit of earth retention walls
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