I started to work in this project in a late stage. The planning drawings are already approved by the Railway Network Authority with this design and now I’d be hard to change it, so I should do my best with this typology. My idea is to design the toe and the heel of the base to get an almost...
I'm working in the design of some quite high cantilevered retaining walls (height of the stem around 9.50 meters), and I'm worried about the horizontal deflection of its top due to the stem deformation (elastic and due to long term loads). Since the earth pressure varies with the deformation of...