Geotechnical Engineering > Retaining Structures

Geotechnical engineering is one of the five main branches in civil engineering, which can further be categorized into soil mechanics, foundation engineering, retaining structures and excavations. Geotechnical engineering is a branch that interacts with all other branches, after all, every structure needs foundation system. Geotechnical engineering failures are usually among the costliest to fix, if the fix is possible at all in the first place. Before we discuss failures, we should briefly describe how the process works in geotechnical engineering, which is something not many people may be familiar. The process in geotechnical engineering starts with a site investigation, after the site is decided on by the owner of the […] Read More

In this post we will look at various aspects of un-anchored retaining structures analysis and design. The anchored systems will be covered in hopefully another post. Read More