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Seismic Design of Retaining Wall

Thread starter Usman Tanveer
Start date Dec 24, 2022

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Dec 24, 2022

Usman Tanveer

Civil/Environmental

Greetings, I am designing a retaining wall under seismic loads . according to AASHTO we have to use Pae and Pir for this purpose. However softwares like Tekla tedd only use Pae for additional seismic loads. Am i doing something wrong assuming Pir(inertial effect of weight due to seismic activity)