There are several types of retaining structures, including gravity, sheet pile, cantilever, and anchored earth/ mechanically stabilized earth (reinforced earth) walls and slopes. Gravity retaining walls use their weight to resist earth pressures.

1. Presented By
A.Bharat kumar

2. Earth retaining structures
Retaining structures are engineered to retain soil and rock.
The earth retaining structures are:
 Gravity retaining wall’s
 Sheet pile wall’s
 Cantilever wall’s
 Anchored earth structures
 Embankment slopes
These are the earth retaining structures.

4. Gravity retaining wall’s
 The “gravity wall” resists the earths pressure
extend by backfill by its own self weight.
 It is usually build in stone masonry, and
occasionally in plan concrete.
 Provides stability by virtue of its own weight, and
therefore, is rather massive in size.
 Plane concrete gravity walls are not used for
heights exceeding about 3 m, for economic resons.

6. Sheet pile wall’s
 The sheet piles are made up of four types of
material they are
i. Cement
ii. Iron
iii. Wooden
iv. Fiber reinforced plastic

7. Cement pile walls

8. Iron pile walls

9. Wooden pile walls

10. Fiber reinforced plastic pile
walls

11. Con…..
 The shapes of sheet piles are:
i. Z-type sheet piles
ii. Flat web sheet piles
iii. H-type sheet piles
iv. Hollow rectangular sheet piles

12. Z-type sheet piles

13. Flat web sheet piles

14. H-type sheet piles

15. Hallow rectangular sheet piles

16. Cantilever wall’s
The cantilever wall uses the pressure from the
earth which would push the wall over to stabilise
itself with the second right angle arm.

18. Anchored wall
This wall keeps itself form falling by being anchored
into the rock or earth.
At old mate fencing we primarily employ the piling
wall option or the gravity wall option depending on
the force to be exerted on the wall.

20. Embankment slopes
The embankment slopes used for the garden’s and
the embankment slopes is between the cantilever
walls and gravity walls. It was the slop filled with
the soil and grow small plants and grass in the
place.