Free retaining wall design software for engineers architects and contractors.
Concrete retaining wall thickness calculation.
B short retaining walls vertical walls up to about 3m in height are usually built as shown in figure 1 b.
Input length and width of the area.
Enter the thickness inches.
V l x h x t.
Amount of concrete needed in cubic yards.
Enter the height feet.
Slump slump is a measure of the consistency of the concrete.
1 2 3 4 5 6 6.
Retaining walls footings or any other volume of concrete.
Divide the width of the wall in inches by the width of the block and round up this is the number of columns.
Width of the base.
Thickness of the foundation wall.
Enter length and height in feet and thickness in inches.
Stem thickness at the bottom.
The wall height in feet and inches.
Calculate the rows and columns.
Amount of concrete needed in cubic metres.
Height of the retaining wall.
Width of the toe.
Volume of wall in cubic feet the amount of concrete needed in cubic feet.
Figure a 2 retaining wall geometric variables.
This calculator is to be used as an estimating tool only.
Click the button to calculate the volume of concrete and man hours not including mixing needed for this job.
Divide the height of the wall in inches by the height of the block and round up this is the number of rows.
Top thickness 18 in.
A good rule of thumb is take your calculation and add 4 to 10 to the total to account for waste spillage over excavation settlement spreading of forms loss of entrained air or any other changes in volume.
Enter the length of your foundation wall in feet and inches.
Before we proceed with the design it is important for the designer to know the geometric variable and parameters of the retaining wall.
Bottom retaining wall loads the following figure shows all the loads applied to the cantilever retaining wall where.
Please enter length in foot.
Enter the length feet.
Thickness of the base.
Refer to figure a 2 below.
Wall stem dimensions wall foundation dimensions width 1 ft strip width 1 ft strip height 13 5 ft length 9 75 ft thickness 8 in.