GUIDE TO RETAINING WALL DESIGN. GEOGUIDE 1

This Geoguide presents a recommended standard of good practice for the design of retaining walls in Hong Kong. This guide covers the types of retaining walls which are commonplace in Hong Kong, including conventional reinforced concrete walls, gravity walls such as crib walls, gabion walls and mass concrete walls, and cantilevered retaining walls. It does not aim to deal comprehensively with maritime structures nor structures used to support the sides of deep excavations, such as sheet pile walls. The recommendations given herein are also not intended for retaining wall design which is outside existing experience derived from practice in Hong Kong. In giving recommendations on design, this Geoguide adopts the limit state method with partial factors of safety.

• Corporate Authors:

  GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING OFFICE, CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

  CIVIL ENGINEERING BUILDING, 101 PRINCESS MARGARET ROAD
  HOMANTIN, KOWLOON  Hong Kong 
• Publication Date: 1993-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 267 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crib walls; Gabions; Guidelines; Mass concrete; Recommendations; Reinforced concrete retaining walls; Retaining walls; Structural design
• Geographic Terms: Hong Kong (China)
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; Research; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00675594
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 1 1995 12:00AM