RetainWall, retaining wall engineering design software
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a concrete or masonry retaining wall. The wall may retain soil or
other granular material. It analisis the stability of the wall based
on the loads and the resulting base pressure, sliding and
excentricities. Loads applied on the wall may consist of self weight,
soil pressure, water pressure, live and seismic loads. If the wall is
a reinforced concrete structure, the software also supports the
reinforcement design. In addition, a soil pressure calculator is also
provided.
Retainwall is designed to be an easy application, on-screen trial-and-
error method and quick solution finding of the design. A familiar
designer can design the wall within minutes. Complete outputs can be
viewed on screen or printed.
Operation of the software begins from the initial dimensioning of the
wall, earth surface and water levels by clicking on the given
dimensions. Next is inputing material properties of the wall, soil,
water and reinforcement bars. External loads given consist of live
load on the ground surface, seismic load as a horizontal seismic
coefficient and any concentrated loads if required. Results of the
wall stability can be obtained immediately. If they are not satisfied
then another trial can be made very quickly. Final results can be
printed.
Using the internal forces of the wall, reinforced concrete design can
also be done very quickly. It requires only bar diameters and
spacings of the reinforcements.
Retainwal supports three unit systems, i.e. metric, SI and British.