Type of Retaining Walls in Civil Engineering - (3D Animation)

This 3d animation video quickly goes over the type of retaining walls that a civil engineer might need to design during his career life. It goes over:
Gravity retaining walls - use their own weight to resist the lateral earth pressures
A cantilever retaining wall - consists of a wall that is connected to the foundation, built using reinforced concrete, with an L-shaped, or inverted T-shaped, foundation. This kind of retaining wall consists of a stem and a base slab (or footing) that sits under the backfill.
Piles - long, slender, columnar elements that can be driven into the ground to provide stability, such as in foundations
A buttress wall - the opposite version of the counter-fort retaining wall in which the counter-forts, known as the buttresses, are provided at the other side of the backfill.
Concrete crib -- comprises a system of interlocking header and stretcher blocks to retain granular fill that provides the necessary stabilizing mass to the wall
A gabion wall - a wall made of stacked stone-filled gabions tied together with wire.
Anchored wall-supporting structure composed of reinforced concrete elements and ground anchors ensuring structural stability, load-bearing capacity, and safety
A Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) retaining wall - a composite structure consisting of alternating layers of compacted backfill and soil reinforcement elements, fixed to a wall facing.

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