Cantilever Sheet Pile Retaining Wall Design Example

Sheet pile walls.

Cantilever sheet pile retaining wall design example.

Designing the cantilever wall stem 9. Include 600 psf traffic surcharge 1ft behind the wall for a length of 20ft. To contrast usual and extreme conditions the effects of a hurricane on a hurricane protection wall would be the usual condition governing the design while the loads of the same hurricane on an embankment retaining wall would be extreme 9 3. The retaining wall is fixed to the reinforced concrete slab.

Figure a 1 retaining wall cross section. Assuming that the allowable bearing pressure of the soil is 120 knm 2 the. To take into account the friction between the wall and the soil we use friction angle δ φ 2. Design of cantilevered wall granular soil.

Sheet pile design by pile buck harry a. Design the sheet pile and the ground achors with allowable stress methodology and obtain a wall embedment safety factor of 1 5. The successor to the classic pile buck sheet piling design manual this pile buck exclusive is the definitive reference for the design of sheet pile walls it covers every aspect of sheet pile design including the soil mechanics and earth pressure theory involved in sheet pile design structural. Consider the cantilever retaining wall with the cross section shown in the above figure a 1 which retains a 2m depth of soil having the groundwater table at 1 0m level.

Civiltech softwareshoring examples 1. A cantilevered sheet pile wall performs somewhat like a. Design of sheet pile walls using truline composite wall sections design methods and examples introduction this report presents the recommended structural capacities for truline composite wall sections and a summary of design methods commonly used to design cantilevered and anchored sheet pile structures. Warrington pile buck international 2007.

30 unit weight of soil ɣ s. Unit weight of water ɣ w. A sheet pile wall is required to support a 12 excavation. Counterfort retaining walls 12.

Soil bearing capacity q all. Reinforced piles spaced at 6ft off center while pile diameter is 2 5ft. Pilaster masonry walls 19. Cantilevered tilt up walls 13.

Coefficient of soil friction ф. Design of cantilevered wall granular soil. Cantilever retaining walls can be precast in a factory or formed on site and considered economical up to about 25 ft in height. Segmental retaining walls 17.

Wood retaining walls 14. Unit weight of concrete ɣ c. Lindahl and don c. Swimming pool walls 18.

Restrained non yielding walls 20. Retaining walls example 3 16 design of a cantilever retaining wall bs 8 110 the cantilever retaining wall shown below is backþlled with granular material having a unit weight of 19 knm 3 and an internal angle of friction of 30.