- Cast in place walls can be tapered (base thicker than top) while block walls can have up to two different block sizes (wall thickness).
- Loads include: equivalent fluid pressure (full or partial backfill), vertical surcharge on the heel, horizontal surcharge, vertical surcharge on the toe, wind load on a fence at the top of the wall, horizontal loads acting on the wall and vertical loads placed over the soil or the wall.
- Retaining Wall designs the wall at ten sections along the height of the wall, ensuring that complexly loaded walls are not improperly designed.
- Sliding is resisted with a combination of friction, cohesion and passive fluid pressure on the toe. If that is not sufficient, a key is designed for additional passive fluid pressure resistance.
- For more efficient designs, Retaining Wall can limit the footing reaction to the middle third of the footing.
- When in design mode, output includes wall & footing dimensions, suggested bar sizes & spacing and stability factors of safety. When in check mode, output includes a list of design criteria (area of steel, shear capacity, stability checks, development lengths, etc) and their status (pass/fail). Analysis results (pressures, total forces, moments, shears, etc.) are displayed for either mode.
- Optional design of the joint between the stem and footing using the shear-friction provisions of ACI 22.9.
- Output includes a to-scale picture of the final wall configuration including the loads and soil pressures.
- Units can be US Customary or metric.
- Digital Canal’s Retaining Wall Software provides you with all of the features you will need to design retaining wall systems. Retaining Wall, as the name suggests, will design your next retaining wall as quickly, easily, and accurately as possible.
- Cast in place walls can be tapered (base thicker than top) while block walls can have up to two different block sizes (wall thickness).
- Loads include: equivalent fluid pressure (full or partial backfill), vertical surcharge on the heel, horizontal surcharge, vertical surcharge on the toe, wind load on a fence at the top of the wall, horizontal loads acting on the wall and vertical loads placed over the soil or the wall.
- Retaining Wall designs the wall at ten sections along the height of the wall, ensuring that complexly loaded walls are not improperly designed.
- Sliding is resisted with a combination of friction, cohesion and passive fluid pressure on the toe. If that is not sufficient, a key is designed for additional passive fluid pressure resistance.
- For more efficient designs, Retaining Wall can limit the footing reaction to the middle third of the footing.
- When in design mode, output includes wall & footing dimensions, suggested bar sizes & spacing and stability factors of safety. When in check mode, output includes a list of design criteria (area of steel, shear capacity, stability checks, development lengths, etc) and their status (pass/fail). Analysis results (pressures, total forces, moments, shears, etc.) are displayed for either mode.
- Optional design of the joint between the stem and footing using the shear-friction provisions of ACI 22.9.
- Output includes a to-scale picture of the final wall configuration including the loads and soil pressures.
- Units can be US Customary or metric.
- Digital Canal’s Retaining Wall Software provides you with all of the features you will need to design retaining wall systems. Retaining Wall, as the name suggests, will design your next retaining wall as quickly, easily, and accurately as possible.
