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Retaining

Retaining wall

Four ways to hold soil: gravity, cantilever, anchored, and reinforced soil. The high side is the fill.

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A gravity wall holds the soil with its own weight. The section is thick at the base.

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A gravity wall holds the soil with its own weight. The section is thick at the base.

A retaining-wall section. Toggle gravity, cantilever, anchored, and reinforced soil. Do not state a height or a bar size.

Use this on its own, or on a real site

This copies the Retaining wall teaching spec. Illustrative numbers stay illustrative. A standalone example has no site. Associating it with Orbit names the tiles and, when the point has an address, only that place's code card.

Standalone example. Scene: teaching-plan. No site tiles, and no local code.

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  • Retained height. job-measured · job-measured
  • Gravity. one form · illustrative
  • Cantilever. one form · illustrative
  • Anchored. one form · illustrative
  • Reinforced soil. one form · illustrative