Kinds of Retaining Walls Which Are Widely Being Use Today
While driving down the roads you might have seen huge walls erected right at the edge of the road and beyond that is the highlands. The walls you see are not the concrete walls which are used in building the house and needs to be tough enough to retain the land from sliding down onto the neighbouring road. These walls you see while going to Bunbury are the retaining walls and needs expert civil people for its planning and execution.
The retaining walls can be categorised in a number of ways based on the material and the site where it is being used. The first kind of wall which is being widely used is the gravity walls. These walls have broader base and tappers along as it goes vertically up. These don’t need any external support system and can stand all by itself based on its weight. It can go above the 7 feet height easily and restrict huge mountainous terrains.
The second kind of walls are the cantilever walls which are constructed in the form of an inverted T. These can go beyond the height of 6 feet but not as high as the gravity walls. The walls erected are of the same breath with a horizontal base. In this retaining wall, the vertical force is converted in the lateral force and steel reinforcements help the wall for tumbling down.
The next set of walls are the sheet piling which is ideal for retaining soil going just some feet above the ground. This is ideal for space where erecting the above two walls will be difficult because of space constraint. Wood planks and metal plates are used widely to erect a sheet piling retaining wall.
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