Sandstone Block Retaining Wall 2

[CSEng-Au]

What books or resources would you recommend for the calculation of the sliding friction resistance force of sandstone blocks (between two blocks) in an earth retaining wall?

 

[r13]

If you are doing MSE wall (reinforced earth retaining wall), the linked paper may help.

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[dik]

I did a granite one down in Georgia about 45 years back and recollection is fuzzy. I seem to recall that it was about 20' high and 13' wide at the base. There was a masonry 'book' back then that had construction of ashlar walls.

Dik

 

[bridgebuster]

See link from the Foundation Engineering forum; scroll top the post by PEInc

Link

A while back I did a stability analysis of a sandstone stairway. The geotch initially said 0.5 but a lot of the stone was badly weathered so we decided to use 0.4