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In Retaining Wall Design: Fundamentals and Advanced Techniques, you'll learn ...
- The principles, design processes, and advanced techniques associated with retaining wall systems
- Theoretical foundations and practical applications necessary to design effective retaining walls
- Soil properties, loading conditions, drainage solutions, and reinforcement methods.
- Industry-standard software tools used for retaining wall design
Overview
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Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 25 pages
This course offers a comprehensive examination of the principles, design processes, and advanced techniques associated with retaining wall systems in geotechnical engineering. The course covers a range of retaining wall types, including gravity walls, cantilever walls, anchored walls, and mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls.
Participants will explore the theoretical foundations and practical applications necessary to design effective retaining walls that address real-world challenges. The course emphasizes the importance of soil properties, loading conditions, drainage solutions, and reinforcement methods. Through case studies and hands-on examples, participants will gain insights into both standard and advanced design methodologies.
Additionally, this course introduces industry-standard software tools used for retaining wall design, providing practical guidance on modeling, analysis, and result interpretation.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- The fundamental principles of retaining wall design
- Different types of retaining walls and their appropriate applications.
- How to analyze and design retaining walls considering soil-structure interaction
- How to apply advanced techniques for the design of reinforced and anchored retaining walls
- Software tools for modeling and analyzing retaining wall systems
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 25 pages
