FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF 28M HIGH GRAVITY RETAINING WALL AT QALANDAR ABAD, ABBOTTABAD BY USING FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE
| Author(s) | : | Tahira Gul, ftikhar Ahmad, Iftikhar Ahmad, Irfan Jamil |
| Institution | : | Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan |
| Published In | : | Vol. 6, Issue 1 — January 2019 |
| Page No. | : | 151-154 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
Retaining wall is an important engineering structure to resist lateral forces for a mass of earth. Design ofretaining wall is complex because it depends on the shape as well as the condition of mass retained. Most of the time itsdesign is done with more factor safety which makes it uneconomical. In this study a 28-meter-high gravity retaining wallwhich was already constructed, was analyzed with Finite element software PLAXIS 3D and GeoStudio. The parameterscompared are vertical settlement, deflection of wall and stability of slope. It was concluded that factor of safety morethan three was adopted which makes it uneconomical.
Tahira Gul, ftikhar Ahmad, Iftikhar Ahmad, Irfan Jamil, “FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF 28M HIGH GRAVITY RETAINING WALL AT QALANDAR ABAD, ABBOTTABAD BY USING FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 151-154, January 2019.
