Question: Problem 3 For the cantilever retaining wall shown in the following figure calculate the factor of safety with respect to overturning and sliding. The required

Problem 3
For the cantilever retaining wall shown in the following figure calculate the factor of safety with respect to overturning and sliding. The required SF for all of them is 2.0. Note the soil under and in front of the wall have different properties from the soil behind the wall. Assume following:
A tensile crack has been developed in the backfill.
The top of the foundation base is 0.8m from ground surface and the top of the wall to bottom of foundation is 6.7m. Foundation thickness is 0.6m.
The wall is all made of concrete for soil-wall interaction
Groundwater table is very deep
For K value use the table for Rankine active/passive pressure coefficients
concrete=23.56KNm3
Problem 3 For the cantilever retaining wall shown

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