ernesto561
Civil/Environmental
- Oct 3, 2012
- 4
Hello everyone,
I'm checking a slope stability analysis. There are a couple of gravity retaining walls on a slope. The person who is doing the analysis says that there is no way SLOPE/W can consider retaining walls, so he uses anchors instead to model the walls. For me this does not make sense. I found this link about modelling a retaining wall in SLOPE/W: [URL unfurl="true"]http://downloads.geo-slope.com/geostudioresources/examples/7/Gravity%20retaining%20wall.pdf[/url]. For this example there are fully specified surfaces, which is not my case. At the end of the document, they say that the retaining wall can be modeled as a material with high cohesion and frictional angle. Is this the best way to do it? Could I consider modelling the material as bedrock? Thanks for your help.
I'm checking a slope stability analysis. There are a couple of gravity retaining walls on a slope. The person who is doing the analysis says that there is no way SLOPE/W can consider retaining walls, so he uses anchors instead to model the walls. For me this does not make sense. I found this link about modelling a retaining wall in SLOPE/W: [URL unfurl="true"]http://downloads.geo-slope.com/geostudioresources/examples/7/Gravity%20retaining%20wall.pdf[/url]. For this example there are fully specified surfaces, which is not my case. At the end of the document, they say that the retaining wall can be modeled as a material with high cohesion and frictional angle. Is this the best way to do it? Could I consider modelling the material as bedrock? Thanks for your help.