Types of retaining walls
The retaining wall forms can play the role of stabilizing the construction soil. The retaining wall can prevent the base edge of the road from slipping and play a stable role. It also has a shrinking effect, which reduces the footprint while protecting the surrounding buildings. It can also reduce the project cost, so it can help you save a lot of money. Let me introduce it to you next!
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l According to the location of the retaining wall
l According to the common retaining wall structure
According to the location of the retaining wall
According to the position of the retaining wall, it can be divided into road shoulder retaining wall, embankment retaining wall, hillside retaining wall, and flooded retaining wall.
Road shoulder retaining wall: The trapezoidal retaining wall forms are set on the road shoulder, and the top of the wall is an integral part of the road shoulder, and its purpose is the same as that of the embankment wall. It also protects existing important buildings adjacent to the route.
Embankment retaining wall: It is set under the high-fill road lift or the steep-slope embankment to prevent the embankment slope or embankment from sliding along the base, and at the same time, it can shrink the embankment toe, reduce the amount of fill, and reduce demolition and floor space.
Hillside Retaining Wall: one-sided wall which is set above a cutting or embankment to support a potentially sloping overburden, broken rock formation, or landslide on a hillside.
Water-immersed retaining wall: along the river embankment, the retaining wall is set on the side near the water, which can prevent the erosion and erosion of the subgrade by the water flow, and is also an effective measure to reduce the compression of the riverbed.
According to the common retaining wall structure
Gravity retaining wall: the retaining wall's gravity is used to maintain the stability of the retaining wall under the action of earth pressure. It is a kind of retaining wall commonly used in our country. The height of common gravity retaining walls is generally below 5 to 6 m, and most of them are in the form of trapezoidal cross-sections with simple structures formula and other forms. Its retaining wall forms are also trapezoidal sections. Thin-wall retaining walls include cantilever retaining walls and buttress retaining walls; generally, the cantilever type is used within the height of 6m, and the buttress type is used above 6m.
Cantilever retaining wall: It is composed of two parts: vertical plate (wall panel) and bottom plate (wall toe plate and wall heel plate).
Buttressed retaining wall: When the wall height of the retaining wall is more than 10m, to increase the flexural rigidity of the cantilever, a buttress is installed at intervals of 0.8~1.0m along the length of the wall. There are two types of anchored retaining walls, anchor rod type, and anchor plate type.
Anchor-type retaining wall: It is composed of prefabricated reinforced concrete columns and retaining plates to form a wall, combined with horizontal or inclined steel anchors. One end of the bolt is connected to the column, and the other end is anchored in the stable rock or soil layer deep in the hillside. The fixed-plate retaining wall is a combined retaining structure formed by reinforced concrete walls, steel tie rods, anchor plates, and filling in between.
Reinforced soil retaining wall: It is the addition of tie bars to the soil, and the friction between the tie bars and the soil is used to improve the deformation conditions of the soil body and improve the engineering characteristics of the soil body, to achieve the purpose of stabilizing the soil body. It is composed of panels and tie bars, and the backfill and tie bars are combined into a whole by the friction between the fill and the tie bars. Various types of retaining walls have different shapes, so the styles of their retaining wall forms are also different.
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