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Retaining Wall Construction and Impacts <br />• Properly constructed retaining walls require disturbance of the slope <br />being protected <br />• There is more to a retaining wall than what you see from the front or <br />top of a finished wall. <br />Simplified explanation of typical retaining walls <br />Gravity wall Earth pressure vector <br />piling wall Earth pressure vector <br />Cantilever wall Earth pressure vector <br />Anchored wall Earth pressure vector <br />Gravity vector (of wall) <br />Gravity vector (of wall) <br />Gravity vector (of wall) <br />Gravity vector (of wall) <br />Reactive force vector <br />(not all shown) <br />Reactive force vector <br />�����(not all shown) <br />Reactive force vector <br />�%�777%7177%/ (not all shown) <br />Reactive force vector <br />7��777�77(not all shown) <br />Standard wail type that holds the earth mainly through its <br />own weight. Can pivot and topple relatively easily, as the <br />Using long piles, this wall is fixed by soil on both sides of its <br />lower length. If the piles themselves can resist the bending <br />The cantilever wall (which may also extend in the other <br />direction) uses the same earth pressure trying to <br />This wall keeps itself from toppling by having cables <br />driven into the soil or rock, fixed by expanding anchors <br />internal leverage of the earth pressure is very high. <br />forces, this wall can take high loads. <br />topple it to stabilize itself with a second lever arm <br />(can be combined with other types of walls), <br />