DMRB Volume 2 Section 1 Part 2 (BD 42/00) Highway structures: Design (substructures and special structures) materials. Substructures. Design of embedded retaining walls and bridge abutments (Including NRA addendum - Dec 2000)
Publication Year
2000
Document Status
Withdrawn
Abstract
Implements the relevant parts of BS 8002 Annex B and CIRIA report 104 but adopts limit state principles, compatible with BS 5400. It extends the scope of CIRIA report 104 to include walls embedded in firm clay and granular materials. The standard includes steel sheet piled walls in aggressive and non-aggressive environments, concrete diaphragm walls and various forms of concrete piled walls. Also includes requirements for reinforcement of cast-in-place embedded retaining walls.
Document History
Withdrawn December 2014. NRA DMRB 2.1.2.
Publisher Information
National Roads Authority
The National Roads Authority's (NRA) primary function, under the Roads Act 1993, was to secure the provision of a safe and efficient network of National roads. They were responsible for the planning and supervision of construction and maintenance, publishing the NRA DMRB and NRA MCDRW. In 2016 the NRA merged with the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) to form a new organisation, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).
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