Sreenivasan, Giri.

This thesis describes the development of a microcomputer based prototype expert system, RETAININGEARTH, for the selection and design of earth retaining structures. RETAININGEARTH is an interactive menu-driven system and consists of two modules--the selection module, SELECTWALL and the design module. SELECTWALL is developed using the rule-based M.1 knowledge engineering shell and it makes a choice of the most appropriate retaining structure from a list of ten typical walls. The design module consists of five independent design programs which performs detailed designs of the concrete gravity and cantilever walls, gabions, reinforced earth and sheetpile structures. The SELECTWALL and the design module are linked by the M.1 external code EXT through a control program CALL. All the design procedures are coded using the C programming language.