Stability analysis for cantilever walls

Factors of Safety are presented in a table of the following form:-

Stage --- G.L. --No. Act.

Pass.
2

11.00

6.00

FoS for toe

elev. =
-2.00
--------------Strut Factor Moment
Elev.
of
equilib.
Safety at elev.
Cant. 2.553
-0.90

Toe elev. for

FoS = 2.000
------------Toe
Wall
elev. Penetr
-ation
0.20
5.80

Strut force
for F=1.000
----------Strut
force
kN/m run
-----

Case B

Case C

Case A
Heading
G.L. Act.

Interpretation
Ground level, active side, at this stage.

G.L. Pass.

Ground level, passive side, at this stage.

Strut Elev.

Not applicable. "Cant" indicates a cantilever wall (i.e. no strut).

FoS for toeCase A

elev. = xxxx
Calculated Factor of Safety for the toe elevation given in the data under "Wall
Properties". If the FoS is not adequate at any stage, the wall should be made
deeper.
Moment equilib.
at elev.

The elevation at which overturning moments

balance restoring moments for a cantilever wall.

Toe elev. for

Fos = yyyyy

Case B
Toe elevation required to achieve the Factor of Safety given in the data under
"Analysis Options".

Wall penetration

Wall penetration below GL on the passive side (corresponding to the above toe
elevation).

Strut force
for F = zzzzz

Case C
Not applicable to cantilever walls.

For cantilever walls the program does two calculations :A) Factor of safety for the given wall depth.
B) Required wall depth for a given factor of safety, Fp, specified by the user.
The depth of the wall, either assumed (case A) or calculated (case B), is taken in all cases to include the
extra depth required to generate reverse passive resistance at the toe of the wall. Thus no additional
penetration should be added to these depths to achieve the corresponding factor of safety.
In WALLAP, the extra depth required to generate reverse passive resistance is actually calculated (using
the same factor of safety) rather than estimated as a fixed percentage of the wall penetration.
The program may print the message:-

Conditions not suitable for factor of safety calculation

This may be because:(a) There is no nett overturning moment; the active pressures are small or zero, possibly due to the
presence of cohesive soil.
(b) The wall is tending to move from right ("passive") to left ("active"). If you want to calculate the
factor of safety under these conditions you would have to reverse the data.