Reinforced concrete retaining wall

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FARCIMAR acquired in 2002 for all national territory, the operating license of the patent system FRAGILITY DIRECTED (F. D. System), and in 2013 patent the system SMART WALL, the applied to meetings of art and walls of reinforced earth. The enormous success accomplished was immediate and to prove it, there are several reference works already implemented and in service, all of them with good behaviour. Such success is due to the Reinforced Earth which allows the use of panels (in reinforced concrete) with great height and substantial advantages in mounting and performance. •High performance; •Greater independence with movement of lands (landfill); •Facility, speed and perfection without effort; •Largest economy. •Doesn’t require foundations; •Possibility to reach superior heights of 20 mts; •Better behaviour in soils of low quality; •Better seismic behaviour; •Aptitude for flood works; •Better landfill control. Reinforced Earth walls are defined as handling facilities, composed by the following elements: •Facing composed at least by an important inferior range of plates / panels with lines of fragility (preferably fracture) providing simultaneous monolithic and deformalism; •Wall footing and “sustaining wedge” in low capacity regular concrete; •Landfilling soils selected with granular material following the technical requirements; •Galvanized steel reinforcement (flat or ribbed) disposed in horizontal layers and fixed by one of its extremes to the facing; •Separator elements and firm joint devices although fexible between the plates of facing; •Geotextil blades disposed on the wall-backing joint.