Gravity retaining wall source.
Plum concrete retaining wall design.
A retaining wall constructed of interlacing concrete blocks requires a simple crushed stone footing.
Like the masonry wall the poured concrete wall also needs a reinforced concrete footing and weep holes every 6 to 8 feet.
I assume that the question asked is how is plain concrete retaining wall better than a rcc retaining wall pcc or plain cement concrete is concrete with out any reinforcement.
Design of slopped gravity retaining wall in excel design of vertical gravity retaining wall sloped type.
Based on our example in figure a 1 we have the forces due to soil pressure due to water and surcharge load to consider.
In this photo increte contractors installed a poured in place decorative concrete wall system called stone crete that creates deep relief stone walls with a variety of available textures and colors.
However poured concrete retaining walls do not need a batter.
Stone crete is used for sound barrier walls retaining walls subdivision entry walls or wherever.
However plum concrete is also used as retaining wall system.
Retaining walls of plain concrete do not have any major advantages ove.
Gravity retaining walls are constructed with mass concrete and they have massive volume as it required to maintain stability.
Sketches of the retaining wall forces should be considered to properly distinguish the different forces acting on our retaining wall as tackled in the previous article retaining wall.
Internet in general vertical and horizontal forces are acting on the retaining wall based on the ground conditions.
I have contacted one of my friend who have actually worked in project where plum concrete retaining walls were used.
Interlacing concrete block retaining walls.
Example 01 using plum concrete 1 3 6 sloped retaining wall.
According to him the sloping face of plum masonry retaining wall should be finished with a plywood or steel formwork.