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Training Course:

Design of Earth Retaining Walls

School/Trainer:

Symmons Madge Associates Ltd.
Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Exeter, Glasgow, Slough, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online/Live | On-site/In-house | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' Course Outline:
Introduction

Types of retaining walls
Brief history of CP2, BS8002 and EC7
Approach to design: stability and strength

Earth Pressure

KA, Ko and Kp: relationship of earth pressure to strain
Coulomb’s method
Rankine’s method
Effects of wall friction and sloping ground
Cohesive soils: Bell’s method
Effect of water pressure
Effect of compaction pressures
Effects of surcharge

Limit States

ULS and SLS
Modes of failure

Factors of safety

Design of Gravity Retaining Walls

Types of wall - mass concrete, brick, rc cantilever
Virtual back of wall
Calculations for stability
Calculations for strengt
Design Exercise 1

Design of Embedded Retaining Walls

Types of wall - sheet piles, contiguous piles, diaphragm walls
Simple cantilever wall: gross pressure method, net pressure method etc.

Calculations for stability and strength
Anchored wall: gross pressure method, net pressure method etc
Fixed and free end conditions
Calculations for stability and strength
Design Exercise 2
...''

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Please go to the school's official website for training price and schedule:
http://www.symmonsmadge.co.uk/

Phone:01446 775959

School Address/Venue(s):

Vale Forge
North Road
Cowbridge
Vale of Glamorgan
CF71 7DF
United Kingdom

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Other training courses offered by Symmons Madge Associates Ltd.:

Site Supervision of Civil Engineering Works
Soils,Trenching, Excavations and Piling
Successful Construction
Basic Reinforced Concrete Detailing to BS 8110 and EC 2
Bridge Assessment & Maintenance & Repair
Concrete Bridge Design
Concrete Technology
Culvert Design
Design of Concrete Structures to EC2
Design of Masonry using Eurocode 6
Design of Timber Structures to Eurocode 5
Designing Steel Building Structures - EC3
Earth Retaining Structures
Managing the Design Process
Sheet Piling and Cofferdams
Structural Masonry
Structural Steelwork Detailing
Surface Water Culvert Design


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