Automated Retaining Wall Designer — Embedment, Anchors & Wall Thickness

The Challenge

Designing embedded retaining walls means iterating embedment depth, anchor depth and size, and wall thickness across multiple load cases — inclined retained ground, surcharge and surge loading, and varying water-table levels. Doing this by hand for every option is slow and makes it hard to test alternatives or show clients the optimum.

The Solution

We delivered a design tool that takes the full set of variables — retained height and inclined retention, soil strength parameters, additional surge/surcharge loading and water-table level — and automatically works out the required embedment depth, anchor depth and size, and wall thickness to satisfy stability and structural checks. Hours of hand calculation become seconds, letting engineers optimise the design live.