DESCRIPTION

• Heavy rain cause of collapse

• Damaged 5 house in the vicinity
• 8 family injured due wall fallen debris.
• The drain built to channel the water been gushing out
water and mud when raining.
• Flash flood and rock blasts hit the wall.
 KEY FINDING OF
ACCIDENT
• The retaining wall made for low loading
LOW DESIGN • Cannot receive high heavy load
CAPACITY • Now follow standard requirement of
retaining wall
• clogging caused a landslide
CLOGGED • accumulated water causes a load on the
DRAINAGE retaining wall
• water causes weakness in the collapsed
PATH structure

OTHER • flash floods, rock blasts that hit the wall.

FACTOR
 REPORT
• heavy rainfall caused the landslide to occur and the
retaining wall was unable to accommodate the load
received. In addition the stagnant water due to the
drainage path was blocked causing the retaining wall to
collapse.
• resulted in eight families being forced to vacate their
homes while a 14-year-old boy suffered a broken leg after
he was hit by a car that crashed due to the wall’s fallen
debris.
• 1 house damaged cause of the debris.
 ACTION

DISASTER INSPECTION DESIGN CONCSTR

HAPPEN OF EXIXTING OF NEW UCTION
• Remove the WALL WALLS • follow the
residence out • investigating the • receive high standard
from that area. requirements
design loads and
• Investigate the • developed by a
• investigate the load durable
caused qualified
received • design to suit
contractor
• Investigate soil the conditions
structure of the place
 RETAINING WALL
• The purpose of the wall is to retain the earth behind and so, quite simply, it
must be built to resist being pushed over by the pressure generated by the
retained earth! In engineering terms, this pressure is referred to as “active
earth pressure”. Designers have a number of options:-
PRINSIP PEMBINAAN TEMBOK PENAHAN
 REFERENCE
• https://
www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/10/529579/retaining-w
all-collapses-ampang-8-families-forced-evacuate
• https://
www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Preventing_wall_collap
se
• https://theconstructor.org/structural-engg/retaining-wall-d
istress-failures/15423/