Reinforced Concrete Buttress Wall

Retaining wall retains earth when level difference exists between two surfaces.

Reinforced concrete buttress wall.

Retaining walls and soil reinforcement are at the heart of what we do. No doubt there are many concrete basement walls without reinforcement. 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. Cantilever retaining walls are constructed of reinforced concrete.

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. Buttresses can be built close to an exterior wall or built away from a wall. 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. Design of cantilever retaining wall counterfort and buttress retaining wall deals with structural design.

A gravity wall h 3m masonry or stone b cantilever wall h 3m and h 6m c counterfort wall h 8m d buttress wall transverse stem support provided on front side e e bridge abutment additional horizontal restraint from bridge deck a gravity wall h 3m masonry or stone. Principles of retaining wall design. A buttress is a structure built to support or reinforce the height of a masonry wall. Surcharge on retaining walls earth pressure.