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  2. Retaining wall - Wikipedia

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    A gravity-type stone retaining wall. Retaining walls are relatively rigid walls used for supporting soil laterally so that it can be retained at different levels on the two sides. Retaining walls are structures designed to restrain soil to a slope that it would not naturally keep to (typically a steep, near-vertical or vertical slope).

  3. Lateral earth pressure - Wikipedia

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    An example of lateral earth pressure overturning a retaining wall. The lateral earth pressure is the pressure that soil exerts in the horizontal direction. It is important because it affects the consolidation behavior and strength of the soil and because it is considered in the design of geotechnical engineering structures such as retaining walls, basements, tunnels, deep foundations and ...

  4. Abutment - Wikipedia

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    Gravity abutment, resists horizontal earth pressure with its own dead weight; U abutment, U-shaped gravity abutment; Cantilever abutment, cantilever retaining wall designed for large vertical loads; Full height abutment, cantilever abutment that extends from the underpass grade line to the grade line of the overpass roadway

  5. Dry stone - Wikipedia

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    The weight of the stones resists the pressure from the retained soil, including any surcharges, and the friction between the stones causes most of them to act as if they were a monolithic gravity wall of the same weight. Dry stone retaining walls were once built in great numbers for agricultural terracing and also to carry paths, roads and ...

  6. Mechanically stabilized earth - Wikipedia

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    The wall face is often of precast, segmental blocks, panels or geocells that can tolerate some differential movement. The walls are infilled with granular soil, with or without reinforcement, while retaining the backfill soil. Reinforced walls utilize horizontal layers typically of geogrids. The reinforced soil mass, along with the facing ...

  7. Laigh Milton Viaduct - Wikipedia

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    In cross-section, the spandrels presented an unusual application of the classic gravity retaining wall. [ 3 ] In the later decades of the twentieth century the viaduct had fallen into an ever-worsening condition, with much serious erosion and loss of facings; the western arch had sagged and the second arch had hogged; cracks up to 60 mm had ...

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