there are so many constraints in the design.
it's already the site boundary behind the wall so that we cannot have the normal L shape retaining wall.
The building will be built "embed" in a slope hill. Two of adjancent sides will have to design for retaining the soil.
The rockhead is very...
A preliminary section is attached.
It is a part of a building which need to be retained
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I am designing an inverted L cantilever retaining wall.
The retaining height is 14m but the design ground water is at 10m high. Therefore, high uplift pressure is acting the footing base and tension anchors are required to maintain the FOS against uplift.
However, when i evaluating the FOS...