Retaining walls and soil reinforcement are at the heart of what we do.
Reinforced concrete buttress wall.
No doubt there are many concrete basement walls without reinforcement.
By a basement wall i mean a wall with living space on one side and outside soil or other backfill on the other and a superstructure overhead.
And it is made of concrete reinforced concrete.
Buttresses counteract side thrust lateral force preventing a wall from bulging and buckling by pushing against it transferring the force to the ground.
They consist of a relatively thin stem and a base slab the base is also divided into two parts the heel and toe the heel is the part of the base under the backfill.
Surcharge on retaining walls earth pressure.
Types of reinforced concrete retaining wall and their components.
Design of cantilever retaining wall counterfort and buttress retaining wall deals with structural design.
Principles of retaining wall design.
Every week hundreds of maccaferri solutions are implemented whether they are a small retaining walls in a housing development or a massive reinforced soil structure on a major highway.
Cantilever retaining walls are constructed of reinforced concrete.
A buttress is a structure built to support or reinforce the height of a masonry wall.