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  1. MelCao

    Subgrade Reaction Method for Retention Wall

    Hi, Does anyone know any book introducing in details how to use sub-grade reaction method to analyze retention walls? Wallap uses this method to calculate bending moment, shear force, deflection etc. using this method. If it's not too difficult I am thinking to program it myself. Regards
  2. MelCao

    Any reliable software for designing of piles under vertical and lateral loadings

    I am from a small piling contracting company, currently we use spreadsheet to calculate the vertical capacity of the pile based on the shaft resistance and base resistance. very often piles are also under lateral loads such as wind, earthquake, then we use Wallap to model the piles under a...
  3. MelCao

    Estimating the allowable spacing of soldier pile wall

    Hello Everyone: I design many soldier pile retention walls for some excavations. there is one thing I am not sure how to estimate the allowable spacing of the piles allowing for the arhing effect between the piles. I am wondering if anyone can reccommend some good references to explain how we...

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