DESIGN OF A
BY
SHIM FOONG CHIEN
ABSTRACT
This project is intended primarily to serve as an subject for the undergraduate civil engineering students to complete their Diploma in Civil Engineering Program. The purpose of this project course was to enables the students to do design, research, analysis and making personal decision about a given project title based on the knowledge that they gained so far. Upon the successful completion of this project course, students will have applied a range of techniques for generating, evaluating and selecting design concepts to meet specified requirements. It also helps the students to better of understood the nature of Engineering Design Concept and acquired a range of interpersonal skills.
The counterfort retaining wall that I designed was make up by reinforced concrete, 8.00m in high, located along the highway, which retains a backfill with a horizontal top surface and consisting of backfill with density δ = 1500 and angle of repose α = 36º. Before I go thru the design part, I realized that several factors has to be consider before designing a counterfort retaining wall; soil condition, types of backfill, surcharge loads, foundation stability and others are all the factors take should take into consideration. I also applied the formula that I learned in the textbooks when doing my calculation part and do some possible checking for unforeseen failure.
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Diploma in Civil Engineering
March 1999
Number: Volume III