Masonry Walls
Water pressure on masonry walls
Overview
Consider a vertical masonry wall having water on one of its sides as shown in figure. Now consider a unit length of the wall. We know that the water pressure will act perpendicular to the wall. A little consideration will show, that the intensity of pressure, at the water level, will be zero, and will increase by a straight line law to
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Example - Water pressure on masonry walls
Problem
One of the walls of a swimming pool contains 4m deep water. Determine the total pressure on the wall, if it is 10m wide.
Workings
Given,
and total pressure on the wall,

- Depth of water, H = 4m
- Width of wall = 10m
Solution
Total pressure on the wall = 784.8 KN
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