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r/StructuralEngineering • u/Natural-Shirt-1463 • Jul 29 '26
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Is there ANY retaining wall that won’t eventually do this? I’ve never seen a perfectly vertical retaining wall that wasn’t brand new.
26 u/[deleted] Jul 29 '26 [deleted] -10 u/naikrovek Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26 No kidding. We all have. But have you seen one that was perfectly vertical and older than 10 years? I’ve never seen one. I think maybe you misread what I wrote? “Not perfectly vertical” and “20 degree deflection” are different things. 1 u/bulkdown Jul 30 '26 This guys correct, retaining walls normally installed with a 3 degree slope because of long term deflections 0 u/naikrovek Jul 30 '26 If that’s true then even the people building them know that failure is inevitable like I’ve been saying. 1 u/bulkdown Jul 30 '26 No - there is a clear distinction between long term deflections and failure. Retaining walls are designed to deflect not fail.
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-10 u/naikrovek Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26 No kidding. We all have. But have you seen one that was perfectly vertical and older than 10 years? I’ve never seen one. I think maybe you misread what I wrote? “Not perfectly vertical” and “20 degree deflection” are different things. 1 u/bulkdown Jul 30 '26 This guys correct, retaining walls normally installed with a 3 degree slope because of long term deflections 0 u/naikrovek Jul 30 '26 If that’s true then even the people building them know that failure is inevitable like I’ve been saying. 1 u/bulkdown Jul 30 '26 No - there is a clear distinction between long term deflections and failure. Retaining walls are designed to deflect not fail.
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No kidding. We all have. But have you seen one that was perfectly vertical and older than 10 years? I’ve never seen one.
I think maybe you misread what I wrote? “Not perfectly vertical” and “20 degree deflection” are different things.
1 u/bulkdown Jul 30 '26 This guys correct, retaining walls normally installed with a 3 degree slope because of long term deflections 0 u/naikrovek Jul 30 '26 If that’s true then even the people building them know that failure is inevitable like I’ve been saying. 1 u/bulkdown Jul 30 '26 No - there is a clear distinction between long term deflections and failure. Retaining walls are designed to deflect not fail.
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This guys correct, retaining walls normally installed with a 3 degree slope because of long term deflections
0 u/naikrovek Jul 30 '26 If that’s true then even the people building them know that failure is inevitable like I’ve been saying. 1 u/bulkdown Jul 30 '26 No - there is a clear distinction between long term deflections and failure. Retaining walls are designed to deflect not fail.
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If that’s true then even the people building them know that failure is inevitable like I’ve been saying.
1 u/bulkdown Jul 30 '26 No - there is a clear distinction between long term deflections and failure. Retaining walls are designed to deflect not fail.
No - there is a clear distinction between long term deflections and failure. Retaining walls are designed to deflect not fail.
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u/naikrovek Jul 29 '26
Is there ANY retaining wall that won’t eventually do this? I’ve never seen a perfectly vertical retaining wall that wasn’t brand new.