The book introduces about engineering designof new supporting structures and features and application conditions ofdifferent supporting structures, load and structural internal forcecalculation, strength and stability design, construction requirements,instructions and engineering examples, representing the latest achievements inengineering design and new contents of relevant design specifications over theyears. The book covers unloading slab retaining walls, cantilever retainingwalls and counterfort retaining walls, anchored slab retaining walls,reinforced earth retaining walls, soil nail walls, friction piles, sheet pileretaining walls, pile foundation underpinning retailing walls, prestressed anchorage cable, anchoragecable piles, groove retaining walls, subgrade sheet pile structure and othersupporting structures and plantation slope technology related to supportingstructures.

The book can be usedby technical personnel engaged in supporting structure design for railway,highway and building engineeringas well as reference for teachers and researchworkers of relevant major. 

Li Haiguang, No. 2 Railway Survey and DesignInstitute