Project:

DESIGN FOR PRECAST CONCRETE

RETAINING WALL UNITS INSTALLATION
Created by: Paul Kalaitzidis MEng CEng
16th December 2014
DESIGN FOR PRECAST CONCRETE RETAINING WALL
UNITS INSTALLATION

Introduction

This report has been created to calculate and fully define all the
requirement details for the construction retaining wall in the project which
will made up from precast units. The all concept of this project is the more
optimal and more economical design again to time and money expense
keeping up the high aesthetics and the safety and health rules.

From the project design predicted the construction of retaining wall as shown
in the following figures 1, 2 and 3:

Fig. 1

Fig. 2

Fig. 3

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Also, from the chosen provider company we have the following solution for
the precast wall unit as shown in Fig 4 and 5

Fig. 4
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Fig. 5
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We did two calculations for this precast retaining wall unit, the first was to
ensure that met all checks which imposed from EC-7 (by the software Toixos
2014, multisoft.gr ) and the second was to produce the loads which was
appropriate for the dowels-shear and tension checks (by excel spreadsheet).
These calculations follow bellow:

First Calculation

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SecondCalculation

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As we can see from the second calculating, the loading which imposed to
the four fix points - holes for installation the dowels are the following:

Ultimate Destabilising Moment M 90.22 KNm

And Critical Shear Force VEd 90.22 KN

We use dowels with diameter equal to d=25mm

And consequently from the equilibrium equation we have:

M
M 0 2 F d M 0 F 2 d
t t

Ft 69.4 KN

So we have

Shear stress per dowel equal to

VEd 90.22 1000
Sd 183.88 N / mm 2 0.6 500 N / mm 2 300 N / mm 2
D 2
25
2
3.14
4 4

And to undertake the above shear stress we need the following calculated
anchor length:

69.4 1000 69400

lanc 53.25 mm 190 200 390 mm
25 Sb 3.14 25 16.6

For the grout material in annular region of the holes we will use Five star
grout, is cement based grout material with pull-out strength 16.6 Mpa.

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Summary
From the above analysis we have ensured that, all restrictions which are imposed from the
Eurocodes and from the rules for safe and health kept up and of course ensured that we have
one optimal and safe design for these structure.

PaulKalaitzidis
MScCivilEngineer

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