A Few Notes On Embedment Design With The ‘What You Design Is What You Get’ WYDIWYG Method For Propped Cantilever Walls

The WYDIWYG method for stability design of propped cantilever walls was recently published in the 2019 ANZ Geotechnical Conference. The new method has been shown to be consistent between total and effective stress designs, numerically friendly, stable, and also produces economical designs. The paper focussed the consideration on overturning stability, which is a critical design for this type of structures. In geotechnical engineering designers often treat passive earth pressures as soil resistances and active earth pressures as soil loads. Are active pressures really loads and passive pressures really resistances? It raises an interesting question and the proposition forms an important assumption in the formulation of the new method. Given the interests from the geotechnical design community a more general discussion on the model development will be given together with application of the method to design. Worked examples are also included to demonstrate simplicity of the design process.