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CDW Win is a particularly advanced programme for the calculation of the most frequently used rigid retaining structures.‎ In particular, the following types are implemented: reinforced concrete corbelled walls, reinforced concrete walls with internal or external buttresses, gravity walls (including dry-stone walls) with a straight profile or with steps upstream and/or downstream, gabion walls and weakly reinforced semi-gravity walls.‎ Each of the types described above also has specific input methods that allow special design problems to be defined, calculated and verified.‎ For corbelled concrete walls, for example, the elevation face can have a broken profile.‎ It is also possible to define a contrasting corbel embedded in the embankment upstream to increase the stability of the structure; or a corbel downstream to simulate a support for loads acting on a bridge abutment.‎ The foundation may be either direct with tapered corbels, horizontal or inclined, with a possible foundation lug upstream or downstream, but also on piles or micropiles, vertical or inclined, arranged in one or more aligned or staggered rows.‎ In the case of micropiles, moreover, there is a management of the profile input via a special graphic archive.‎