Earthquake is an interesting natural phenomenon. If you live in the west coast of United States or in a seismic zone anywhere and are a civil structural engineer, I am sure you have designed or will be asked to design structures for seismic loads. For others who don’t deal with seismic loads on a regular […]
Tieback-Drilled Pier-Soldier Pile walls
There are many types of retaining walls other than gravity and cantilever walls (we discussed these in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of Retaining walls). But there are instances where these cannot be used. Say for example you are really close to property lines or if there is a buried pipe underneath that […]
Retaining Walls – Part 3
Okay, lets continue on to Part 3 of Retaining walls. If you have not read Part 1 and Part 2, I would suggest you read those before continuing with this section. In this section we will take a simple cantilever retaining wall and discuss the concept of how they are affected by the loads and […]