INPUT:

Height of the wall (H) = 6.0 m

Width of the base of
wall(B)= 4.6 m
Unit Weight of Soil(γ)= 19 kN/m3
Surcharge load (q)= 10 kN/m2
Angle of Soil Internal
Friction (ϕ) = 33 deg

Angle of back fill slope (i)= 5 deg

Angle of interface friction
between wall and soil(δ)= 20 deg

b'= 4.15 m
h'= 5.1 m
Angle of wall with vertical
α = tan-1 (b'/h') 39.1361279892311 deg
Coefficient of friction(μ) 0.6
Horizontal Seismic
Coefficient (Ah) = 0.08
Vertical Seismic
Coefficient (Av) = 0.04
top width 0.45
unit wt of , masonry 24
CALCULATION OF ACTIVE DYNAMIC EARTH PRESSURE COEFFICIENT
 Ah 
  tan 1  
 1  Av 
Taking +ve value (1  Av ) cos 2 (
Ca DYN 
λ = 4.399 deg cos  cos 2  cos(
Taking +ve value
λ = 4.764 deg
Taking +ve value
Ca DYN = 0.54318

1+Av= 1.04
cos2(ϕ-α-λ) 0.966153728928781 sin(δ+φ) sin(φ-i-λ) 0.319749490250657
cosλ 0.997054485501582 cos(α-i) cos(δ+α+λ) 0.719543623808663
cos2α 0.904508497187474 (1+Αv)cos2(φ-α-λ) 1.00479987808593
cos(δ+α+λ) 0.738470576851374 cos λ cos2α cos(δ+α+λ) 0.665985446699374
sin(δ+ϕ) 0.798635510047293 sqrt(1//2) 0.666616970933863
sin(ϕ-i-λ) 0.400369738420124 1+ (3) 1.66661697093386
cos(α-i) 0.974370064785235 1/(6) 0.360021469516815
 (3)/(4) 1.50874149437608
Ca dyn = (7)x(8) 0.543179329926272
Taking -ve value
Ca DYN = 0.508

CALCULATION OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC FORCES

1-Av= 0.96
cos2(ϕ-α-λ) 0.96841942324543 sin(δ+φ) sin(φ-i-λ) 0.315081744862325
cosλ 0.99654575824488 cos(α-i) cos(δ+α+λ) 0.715344375743301
cos2α 0.904508497187474 (1+Αv)cos2(φ-α-λ) 0.929682646315613
cos(δ+α+λ) 0.734160871312249 cos λ cos2α cos(δ+α+λ) 0.661760940771772
sin(δ+ϕ) 0.798635510047293 sqrt(1//2) 0.66367282840694
sin(ϕ-i-λ) 0.3945250879762 1+ (3) 1.66367282840694
cos(α-i) 0.974370064785235 1/(6) 0.361296831334077
(3)/(4) 1.40486176961635
Ca dyn = (7)x(8) 0.507572105824771
Adopting higher value of Ca dyn
Ca dyn = 0.5432
PA dyn = 0.5 Cadyn γH 2

185.77 kN/m

Ca stat = 0.453586255494465
PA stat = 0.5 Ca stat γH2
155.13 kN/m

Dynamic Increment = PA dyn -PA stat

= 30.64 kN/m

The static earth pressure will act at h/3 from the base and
dynamic increment at h/2 from base

STRUCTURAL STABILITY ANALYSIS

Refer figure,
Weight of retaining wall
Weight of HGIE +Weight of GID +Weight of ABCF

= 430.83 kN

Factor of Safety against Sliding

μ= 0.6
 F.O.S= 3.72 Safe

Factor of Safety against Overturning

Stabilising/Resisting moment about point A
= 1226.73052400209 kN-m

Overturning moment about A

= 316.918613419781 kNm

F.O.S against overturning

= Stabilizing moment about A
Overturning moment about A
= 383.0088/104.2589
= 3.87 Safe

Check for Allowable bearing capacity or Foundation Stability

Total moment about point A = 909.811910582308 kNm

Total Vertical load = 590.29 kN/m

X  1.54

As eccentricity is less than B/6 maximum base pressure on section AB is

B/6= 0.766666666666667 e<B/6
Maximum Base pressure
V  6e  255.315437200959 kN/m2 <300 kN/m2
1   
B B 
Minimum Base pressure
V  6e  1.333 > 0 kN/m2
1   
B B 
 heel proj
toe proj
base width
Total base width
base depth

Lever arm rect

2
 
 
(1  Av ) cos 2 (     )  1 
YN   1 
2
cos  cos  cos(     )  
 sin(   ) sin(  i   )  2
1    
  cos(  i ) cos(     )  

1 ϕ= 33 0.57595865
2 α= 18 0.31415927 FROM CAD
3 δ= 20 0.34906585
4 i= 5 0.08726646
5 λ +ve= 4.399 0.07677189
6 λ -ve= 4.764 0.08314123
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Horizontal component of earth pressure

= PA dyncos(α+δ)
Rh' = 95 kN/m

Vertical component of earth pressure

= PA dyn sin(α+δ)
Rv'= 159.46 kN/m 12.393
Factor of safety against Sliding 506.715
Rv '  228.528
FoS S   1.0  1.5 405.190136
Rh '
73.9043879 ok
Rv '  Net Vertical Force
Rh '  Net Horizontal force
 = coefficient of friction between
base of wall and soil
 Rv '  Net Vertical Force
Rh '  Net Horizontal force
 = coefficient of friction between
base of wall and soil

Factor of safety against Overturning,

FoSO 
M r
 1.0  2.0
M o

M R  Sum of all resisting

moment about toe
M O  Sum of all overturning
moment about toe

Eccentricity of vertical load=

B
e   X
2
0.758704936 m

o.k. safe

o.k safe
0 m
0 m
4.6 m
4.6 m
0.9 m

0.225