Following casting, concrete cracks if early-age thermal (EAT) and long-term (LT) shrinkage
movement is restrained. Crack control is of particular importance in walls which rely solely on
concrete for water tightness, such as retaining walls and water resisting tanks. It is well established
that the cracking behaviour of end restrained members is very different from that of edge restrained
walls. For this reason, both restraint types are considered separately in literature and in codes of
practice such as Eurocode 2 (EN 1992). In reality, combined edge and end restraint is present in many
reinforced concrete (RC) structures. In the absence of design recommendations for combined
restraint, U.K. engineers commonly design crack control reinforcement for end restraint as it is the
worst case. In the authors’ opinion, this is wasteful as it leads to the provision of unnecessary
reinforcement. To this end, an experimental programme was conducted to investigate cracking in RC
walls with combined base and end restraint. The measured and calculated crack widths are compared
with the predictions of EN 1992 for edge and end restraint. The results suggest that crack widths in
walls with combined edge and end restraint can be calculated with the EN 1992 equations for cracking
in edge restrained walls.