CENTRO DE CAPACITACIONES

BELITO INGENIEROS SAC

MODULO I

DISEÑO DE BADENES Y
MUROS DE CONTENCIO
CON CIVIL 3D

ING. JOSE ANTONIO BELITO MANCHA

 Backfill

Front
face

Backface

Batter
Key between successive
concrete pours for high
walls

Key Stem

Toe Heel

Base, base slab or footing

Figure 12-2 Principal terms used with retaining walls.

 200 mm minimum
(300 mm preferable)

Minimum batter
1
H
48

B/3
H/12 to H/10

Below frost depth

and seasonal
volume change
B = 0.4 to 0.7 H

Figure 12-3 Tentative design dimensions for a cantilever retaining wall

 0.30 m to H/12

Minimum
batter
Slope
change
1:48 to reduce
concrete
H
½ D to D
H/8 to H/6

D
May be 0.5 to 0.7 H
s
loped

(
a
)

Figure 12-5 (a)Tentative dimensions for a gravity retaining wall; (b)

broken-back retaining wall.
Figure 12-7 Forces involved in the sliding stability of a retaining wall.
 β
β

δ = angle of wall friction Ws

v a
P = P sin β Wc
Wc Ph P=v P
=aPcos
a sin (90°-
(90°- ∝+∝ δ)
+ δ) Ph
= Pa cos β P
δ Pa

∝ a
a
∝ If -small ∝ β
δ 90 ∝
P

n
eglect

V=
Wc + Pv V = Wc + Ws + Pv

(a)
b)
Figure 12-9 Forces on a gravity wall (a) Coulomb analysis; (b) Rankine analysis