Aim of studying – to understand importance of support structures; types of structures, types and main causes of failure. Design of retaining and sheet-pile walls
according to traditional methodology and the methodology defined by Eurocode 7. Drainage. Main
techniques for improving site soils for foundation
Content of
discipline in themes: 1. Retaining walls. steady-state pressure; Rankine
and Coulomb earth pressure theory; type of retaining walls and type of failure modes; retaining wall design: global factor design and
partial factor design
according to Eurocode 7; wall
drainage 2. Sheet-pile walls. types of sheet-pile walls; design
of cantilevered, anchored sheet-pile walls and multi-anchored tieback walls; the importance of numerical methods; supervision of
construction, monitoring and
maintenance in retaining
structures