MasterClass: How a Professional Engineer designs a Retaining Wall

Grab a pen and paper, a cup of coffee and follow along with me in the design of a reinforced concrete masonry block retaining wall and footing step-by-step.
We are going to look at soil pressure, design of the stem, carry out stability checks like overturning, sliding and bearing check, design of the footing for bending and the reinforcement detailing.
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[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

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[@lahiruwijesinghe6549]

This is awesome! Thanks for doing this video. If you could please do these kind of videos that involves computations, that would be really grateful. Looking forward to seeing more of these videos.

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

Thanks for the feedback :)

[@aphexHQ]

Who doesn't love a cantilever! Pont de Québec Bridge, Canada is the GOAT for us on this really 👌

[@ajw5868]

THANK YOU!! I can't believe videos like this are free

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

Thank you

[@vesaltorabi9]

LOVE your work and videos! Keep it up!

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

Thanks for the support Vesal.

[@engrmattd]

Thank you for this video. This was very helpful. Please keep posting videos like this.

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

Thanks for the feedback :)

[@sx2000]

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[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

Thanks very much James. I appreciate your support.

[@nhanvohoang8935]

Thanks mate, it's really good tut

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

Thanks for the feedback Nhan

[@tarohiranuma]

Nice video Gabe💪

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

Thanks Taro. Hope you're enjoying your Geo life :)

[@Cjephunneh]

VERY detailed work. THANKS. Who goes through all this effort in designing a simple retaining wall? I dont.

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

Thanks Mustang :) In the office we use a spreadsheet to streamline the design process, but you need to understand the design to build your own spreadsheet.

[@sam_Bassiouni]

Love your work mate. I am a Project Engineer on site but it's always good to know how to design structures. Have no idea how is that important to decide where to add a construction joint on site when things goes wrong with concrete pouring 😀

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

That's it mate. One of the best Project Engineers I've come across worked as a structural design engineer before becoming project engineer. He told me how useful those skills are nowadays. I'm not saying that every project engineer should work as a design engineer :D but they at least should understand the fundamentals behind the design. (in my opinion).

[@propermint1]

Do stuff on floorboards, joists and joint connections :) great stuff

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

Thanks for the suggestions :)

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Nice vid, love your work👌 Why I can't visit your website? Anyone have the same problem?

[@georgemacharia2394]

Great

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

Thanks George

[@morosmith8710]

Hi, great video. Can you do a timber pole retaining wall example please.

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

Thanks :) Will put it on the list

[@andrewjoyce9992]

@@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus And compare to a galvanized steel UB wall, particularly required slope of wall and/or how change of slope affects it design

[@gibsonkalafiu5452]

Hi thanks for the lesson, btw can this method /calculations still applied to cantilever reinforced concrete retaining wall??

[@bengthebrazilianengineerinAus]

The general calculations yes. Just make sure to change the masonry design to RC design.

[@gibsonkalafiu5452]

Thanks, this is so helpful

[@JamesKay238]

For the 'V' value in the bearing check at 31:00, the 147.22kN doesn't include the surcharge load, only Ww+Wf+Ws. Should V be 158kN?

[@JamesKay238]

I have bought the workbook and had a question after going through example 2.
When calculating M* in example 1, M green and M yellow are subtracted but not factored by 1.2. However in example 2, M yellow is factored by 1.2. Can you clarify this please?