The design of retaining walls is covered in Section 9 of Eurocode 7.

"For each design approach, a different combination of partial factor sets is used to verify the limit state. For Design Approach 1, (for retaining walls and shallow footings) two combinations are available..." (Section 7.4.2)

Resources for retaining walls (Section 7.4.2):

Addendum: Example 7.2

Table 7 .1

Example 7.1 *

Example 7.2 *

Example 7.3 * ^†

Example 7.4 * ^†

Spreadsheet of partial factor sets

Ka values - horiz surface and delta equal to phi ^‡

Exercise 7.5 *: (7.1), (7.2), (7.3)

* Click "No" or "Don't update" if prompted by dialogue box. These spreadsheets should really be saved locally (right click on link) in the same folder as the partial factors spreadsheet for correct operation.

^†These spreadsheets contain Macros. Click "Enable Macros" if prompted.

^‡For use with Example 7.1