DESIGN OF GRAVITY RETAINING WALL

DATA
Type of Wall Gravity
Density of Dam material (with skin reinforcement) 25.00 KN/M3
Weight of Water 10.00 KN/M3
Specific gravity of concrete SC 2.40
Seismic Zone No V
Seismic Zone factor 0.40
Frictional Coef 0.75
Depth of Storage Hw 5.80 M
Free Board 5% of Dam height 0.29 M
hb 0.30 M say
Height of the wall H 6.10 M
Top width of wall 14% of H or 0.55H1/2 BT 0.75 M
Maximum value of pressure coefficient as per USBR C 1.00
Base Width (considering no batter along retaining face)
HW/(SC-C)1/2 B 4.00 M say

Factor of Safety against

Overturning 1.50
post earthquake
Sliding 1.00
Reference IS 1893 - 2002 Part I, II & IV

Calculation of Horizontal and Vertical Seismic Coefficients

Horzontal Seismic Coefficient as per part II
ah = Z/2 + I/R +Sa/g
Where,
ah Horizontal Seismic Coefficient
Z Seismic Zone Factor which is taken as 0.40
I Importance factor which is taken as 1.00
R Response reduction factor which is taken as 2.5
Sa/g Spectra acceleration coefficient

The solid retaining wall is almost rigid and no diferential

displacement shall take place in the wall during the seismic
acceleration. Hence the wall is taken as zero period structure and
the spectral acceleration coefficient of the wall is taken as 1.00

ah 0.08
Vertical acceleration
av 0.053
coefficient

Calculation of Static Pressure due to Water

Active pressure 1.00 10.00 6.10 61.00 KN/m

Height of action from the base of the wall H/3 2.03 M
Dynamic Pressure 0.4 61.00 24.40 KN/m
 Dyanmic pressure is less than the static pressure

0.75

Check for Stability

6.10

4.00

Forces Lever Moment about Toe

arm from
Sl no Item Description and Dimensions Vertical Horz Toe

(KN) M KN-m
1 Weight of Dam
W1 0.75 * 6.10 * 25 114.38 3.63 415.181
W2 0.5*6.10*3.25*25 247.81 2.17 537.753
2 Water Pressure
P 10*1*5.802/2 168.20 1.93 -324.63
3 Uplift pressure
U
0.33*5.80*9.81*4.00*1/2 -37.55 2.67 -100.27

324.63 168.20 952.934 -424.89

Check for Sliding 1.45 >1.00 OK

Check for Overturning 2.24 >1.5 OK

Eccentricity from the center (e)

x M/V 1.63 m
e B/2-x 0.373 m
< 0.67 M
Hence, no tension will occur at base
Pressure on the soil
p max / min P/B(1+/- 6e/B)

pmax 126.62 KN/m2

pmin 35.70 KN/m2
DATA

TBL + 3.630 m

Bed Level + 1.700 m

Discharge Q 1.286 M3/sec

(Assumed)
Weight of Soil g 15.00 KN/m3

Bearing Capacity of the soil qo 80.00 KN/m2

Angle of repose f 30o

Coefficient of friction @ base m 0.6

Surcharge Ws 15.00 KN/m2

Lacey's Silt Factor f 0.80 for medium silt

FoS against Overturning 2.00

FOS against Sliding 1.50

DIMENSIONS

Coefficient of active earth pressure Ka 0.33

Depth of foundation as per Rankine's formula 0.60 m

Normal depth of scour = 0.473(Q/f)0.33 d 0.55 m

The maximum depth of scour in a straight reach is 1.27 0.70 m

However, keep the depth of foundation as 1.00 m

Height of the retaining wall above bed level 1.93 m

Total height of the retaining wall 1.93 + 1.00 2.93 m

H 3.00 m say

Base width of the retaining wall 0.63H 1.89 m

2.90 m say

Top width of the wall 0.45 m