retaining wall design get your development embed of the vertical into your key, not your footing? 2

[Materofact]

lets say you need a relatively deep key to obtain required sliding resistance. instead of bending your stem vertical into your footing, why not just run them with no bend all they way down to the bottom of the key straight shot and get your embed length in your key, and at the same time providing your key reinforcement? this would also reduce the required thickness for your footing (which is usually at least 14" because of the embed hook). I have never seen this done in a retaning wall detail. why not?

 

[Guest090822]

Materofact - don't overlook constructibility. It's much easier to construct the key and footing at the same time. It allows for the stem to be constructed by simply resting the formwork on top of the footing once it's cured long enough. A lot of things look good on paper, but then you need to think about how it will be constructed.