A retaining wall is mainly used to prevent soil erosion. It protects your property in sloping areas.
Heavy rains cause extensive property damage. The use of retaining walls in flooded areas can prevent flooding/erosion during heavy rains.
If the house is located on a platform that is higher than the surrounding land, there is a risk of damage to the building due to the soil sliding slowly. Secure the building using a retaining wall.
Beautiful and unique landscapes can be created using a Retaining Wall if your area has a natural slope.
Gravity Retaining wall ensures its stability against external forces by its own weight. This type of retaining wall is mainly designed to remove the overturning effect caused by external earth pressure.
Gravity Retaining wall is a suitable option for low heights. A gravity Retaining wall can be selected for a large height for a specific purpose. Gravity Retaining walls can be made using different materials, which can be constructed using stone, bricks, mass concrete, precast concrete blocks, etc.
The cantilever retaining wall consists of elements such as a stem and base slab.
Cantilever Retaining Wall can be made of reinforced concrete, prestress concrete, or precast concrete.
The cantilever retaining wall is the most commonly used type. Cantilever retaining walls are mostly made of concrete ready by forming formwork on site. A precast retaining wall is used as a cantilever retaining wall.
In this type of retaining wall, part of the base slab is arranged below the backfill material. Which is called the heel, and the other vertical part is called the toe. The construction of a cantilever retaining wall is usually very economical, up to a height of 10 m.
The construction of this type of retaining wall requires less amount of concrete than a gravity retaining wall. But in its proper condition, it is carefully designed, subject to various factors.
The design of the cantilever retaining wall includes forces such as sliding, uplift pressure, and soil-bearing pressure.
This type of retaining wall is made of gabions filled with stone, which is strongly connected to the wire. Gabion walls are usually sloping rather than vertical. This type of retaining wall usually uses galvanized steel wire. The PVC-coated and stainless steel wire can also be used.
Gabion Retaining Wall can be used to control erosion due to slopes in river banks, beaches, highways, etc. Gabion walls provide a sleek look to the landscape.
Piled Retaining Wall is made by driving reinforced concrete pillars adjacent to each other into the ground.
Piles are driven to the appropriate depth to withstand the pressure used in temporary and permanent works or in both works.
The pile retaining wall allows digging into the ground with extreme rigidity. Which allows digging into the required depth without any disturbance in the surrounding structure or properties.
This type of retaining wall is usually used when space is limited or a thin retaining wall is required.
For the construction of anchor retaining walls, deep cable rods or wires are deep driven into the earth. Then, the ends are filled with grout material to provide an "anchor".
The anchor (tieback) resists retaining wall overturning and sliding pressure.
An anchoring retaining wall is used especially for loose soil on rocks.
This type of retaining wall is used in the structure system for the basement.
The design of this type of Retaining Wall includes elements like facing elements and reinforcement embedded in the backfill etc. The facing element is made using material such as concrete, segmental block or panel, or steel wire.
The reinforcement element in this type of retaining wall may be a material such as a geosynthetic (geotextile, geogrid) or metallic (strip, grid, wire mesh). It is sometimes used to support filling material.
This type of retaining wall is one of the most economical and commonly constructed retaining walls.