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Question 1

What is a counterfort wall?

Answer 1

It’s like a T–type cantilevered wall except with triangular shaped cross walls to stiffen the vertical slab and add weight to the base (spaced at intervals half the wall height)

Question 2

When do you use and L – type cantilevered wall?

Answer 2

When you are a budding a property line or other obstruction

Question 3

What is a retaining walls batter?

Answer 3

The backward sloping face of the wall as it rises

Question 4

What is a deadman?

Answer 4

A timber, stone, or concrete mass buried in the ground as an anchor for a retaining wall

Question 5

What is behind the brick veneer in a brick veneer retaining wall?

Answer 5

CMUs

Question 6

What is a gravity wall? What is its height limit?

Answer 6

A reinforced concrete retaining wall that resists overturning and sliding by the shear weight and volume of its mass. Height limit: 10 feet