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    srrnorg Passive pressure & retaining wall design - Earth retenton engineering - Eng-Tips Home » Forums » Geolecinical Engineers » Ac Passive pressure & retaining wall design ~ ‘hread255-447795 leg » Earth retenion engineering Forum This question has been asked before on this website, and the consensus seems to be that you don’t use passive pressure when checking retaining walls for overturning and soil bearing pressure. I'd like to pose a couple hypotheticals to get some ‘opinions on the approach, Let's say you have a building foundation wall that has negligible vertical loads on it, but itis acting as a retaining wall with exterior grade being lower than the interior floor by 3'-0". For case 1, you have you're bottom of footing at 2'-0" below the exterior grade (retaining 5'-0" on heel side). You neglect the passive pressure of the exterior soil, and that all seems to ‘make sense, But how about for case 2, you instead have you're bottom of footing 4-0" below the exterior grade (retaining 7-0" on heel side). You will most likely end up needing a larger footing due to the overturning and soil bearing pressure ‘checks even though the grading elevations haven't changed. Intuitively I feel like your footings should be the same size, but using a program like RetainPro that's not what you get. (One reason I've heard for neglecting passive pressure is because someone may excavate against the wall ata later date removing all of the passive pressure sol. If this is the reasoning why you neglect passive pressure, should you also be

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