Retaining walls are structures designed to bound soils between two different elevations. … Many retaining walls are cantilever-type, but it’s also common to find in practice walls that are laterally restrained at the top, such as in the case of a basement retaining wall supported laterally by an elevated floor slab.
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To be considered restrained a full height basement wall the subfloor system resists the horizontal pressure at the top of the wall and the basement floor slab resists the horizontal pressure at the bottom. The concrete basement wall is designed as a simple beam pinned at the top and bottom.
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The main purpose of a retaining wall is to keep soil back and maintain a difference in ground level. Fences can be built on top of a retaining wall, which is referred to as a fence with an integrated retaining wall. Retaining walls typically range from one to three feet in height.
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Retaining walls are structures designed to bound soils between two different elevations. … Many retaining walls are cantilever-type, but it’s also common to find in practice walls that are laterally restrained at the top, such as in the case of a basement retaining wall supported laterally by an elevated floor slab.
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Earthquakes can cause substantial hydrodynamic forces in penstocks and pressure tunnels. Depending on foundation conditions (soil type) and length of a penstock or pressure tunnel the maximum hydrodynamic pressures are up to 1 MPa for a peak ground acceleration of 0.3g.
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