Retaining Wall Design Software
The Retaining Wall Design Software helps engineers design Cantilever and Gravity retaining walls and is suitable for calculation of block or concrete walls. The software includes calculations for overturning, sliding and, bearing utilization ratios. Once a design has been executed, a PDF design report can be generated to show the detailed calculations steps and references followed to achieve the results.
Various components of the retaining system can be calculated including the retaining wall stem, the concrete retaining wall footing and the soil layers on both sides of the wall.
Discover key features of SkyCiv Retaining Wall Design Software

Retaining Wall Calculations
SkyCiv Retaining Wall module calculates a number of stability checks and calculations to help complete the typical design of retaining walls.
- Overturning Calculations - To ensure the wall is no susceptible to tipping over
- Sliding Calculations - To ensure the wall will not slide due to lateral earth pressure
- Bearing Calculations - To ensure the ground beneath can support the structure
- Clear and easy capacity and Factor of Safety calculations
- Detailed PDF Reporting

Design Capabilities
SkyCiv Retaining Wall design includes built in Design Checks for ACI and will soon support Australian and European Design Standards.
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Full Calculation Reports
Structural engineers should have access to all the information of their foundation designs. This includes the design results and step by step calculations made by the software. SkyCiv Retaining Wall Design reports show the full step-by-step calculations, structural engineers can review:
- References to relevant chapters, checks and assumptions for all calculations to ACI SP-17
- Custom Company logo and model setup information
- Detailed calculations of soil analysis
- Relevant assumptions and failure criteria
- Clear pass/fail summary results
Full capabilities for everything you need in retaining wall design
Design Concrete Retaining Walls with SkyCiv
Gravity Retaining Walls
- Variable stem width and height
- Sliding Capacity Checks
- Overturning Capacity Checks
- Bearing Capacity Checks
Cantilever Retaining Walls
- Variable base slab dimensions
- Variable stem dimensions
- Sliding Capacity Checks
- Overturning Capacity Checks
- Bearing Capacity Checks
More benefits from SkyCiv

SkyCiv structural design software is 100% cloud, giving you instant access through your web browsers. Simply log into your SkyCiv account and visit the software directly. You can now access your files from anywhere and at any time.
SkyCiv software is built with a number of great modeling, editing, and reviewing features that help you achieve a much faster modeling workflow. These range from the pen tool, bulk editing, camera roll, and more.
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SkyCiv software allows you to tailor your own analysis reports in PDF and CSV formats, with full step-by-step calculations made by the software.
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Share and collaborate in real-time with your team using our file sharing and permission control functionalities. They also allow the SkyCiv Support team to view your models so support can never be easier.
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One account gives you access to all SkyCiv software, allowing you to make the most of our structural engineering software.
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Flexible pricing, no lock-in contracts required

“The ease of use and the presentation of the results are both awesome. I have had ongoing interaction with the support team and everyone is excellent!”

It is used for various civil and mechanical engineering courses and the students love it. We are happy with the continuous updates to SkyCiv as well, highly recommended.

“It was easily the most intuitive package available to learn; it is particularly easy to build the 3D model and define nodes, members, supports, materials, sections, then apply loads & combinations.”