• Mujawar Nadim. A
• S. K. Sekar

Reinforced concrete retaining wall are meant to support more height of earth mass. Earth pressure on a retaining wall decides the sectional dimensions of the wall and there have been several attempts in the literature to reduce the earth pressures on the retaining walls, by using techniques such as lightweight backfill and placement of compressible inclusions at the wall backfill interface, to name a few. Retaining wall with pressure relief shelves is one of the special types of retaining wall. High reinforced concrete retaining wall may be used as economically by providing relief shelves on the backfill side of wall. A parametric study is conducted to understand the influence of width and position of relief shelves on the contact base pressure below slab, deflection of top node of wall and lateral earth pressure.

Retaining wall, Relief Shelf, Lateral Earth pressure.

"Optimisation and Performance of a rigid Retaining Wall with Relief Shelves", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.146-149, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBM06022.pdf

"Optimisation and Performance of a rigid Retaining Wall with Relief Shelves", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp146-149, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBM06022.pdf