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Status Future consideration
Workspace RAM Elements
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 11, 2024

Retaining Wall Module - Add Wall-soil friction angle for passive soils

It has come to my attention that the program is using the Foundation base-soil friction coefficient to compute the passive pressure resistance when using Columb (it's using this to back calculate "delta"). To be frank, this is just wrong IMO. The wall-soil friction angle at the bottom of the footing (a horizontal surface where the concrete is poured against the soil) vs the face of the wall (smooth vertical surface that is typically formed) is different. Therefore, I'd like the ability to change this value. This can be handled one of two ways, The first which I think makes most sense is to create a soil layer in front of the wall. The second, is to just add a "Wall-soil friction angle" variable in the "foundation soil data" area similar to what is done for the backfill data.


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    Carlos Perez
    Oct 23, 2025

    Hello, so in order to be clear instead entering the factor in the equation below you would like to enter the friction angle itself to replace the k1*phi2. Equation from DAS, 2019.