Cantilever Wall

Cantilever Retaining wall are constructed of reinforced concrete. They are consisting of steam and a

base slab. The slab foundation that loaded by back-fill, thus the weight of backfill soil and surcharge

stabilize the wall against overturning and sliding. The stem act as vertical cantilever under lateral

earth pressure. The base is also divided into two parts, the heel and toe. The toe slab act as

cantilever under action resulting soil pressure acting upward and heel slab act as horizontal

cantilever action of weight of retained earth.

Cantilever wall also required less construction compared to gravity wall and cheaper than massive.

The design is economic between range 1.2m to 6m.

The type of failure cantilever wall is form effect of water, which is the ground water behind retaining

wall whether static or percolating through a subsoil can have adverse effect upon the design and

stability. Next type of failure is, slip circle failure due to heavy surcharge behind the wall and when

low quality material used and mistake in calculated height of water table, nature and type of so
Advantages of cantilever walls:

 Cantilever walls offer an unbstructed open excavation

 Cantilever walls do not require installation of tiebacks below adjacent properties
 Cantilever walls offer a simpler construction procedure as the construction staging is much
simpler.
Disadvantages of cantilever walls:

 Maximum excavation for cantilever walls is rather limited, typically to 18 ft (6m) maximum.
 It is generally not recommended to use cantilever walls next to adjacent buildings.
 Control of lateral wall displacements depends on the mobilization of passive earth
resistance.
 For deeper cantilever excavations the wall stiffness may have to be considerably increase.
This can limit the available space within the excavation.