Cantilever Sheet Pile Retaining Wall Design Example

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Cantilever sheet pile retaining wall design example. This design example focuses on the analysis and design of a tapered cantilever retaining wall including a comparison with model results from the engineering software programs spwall and spmats. Civiltech softwareshoring examples 1. 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. Swimming pool walls 18.

Reinforced piles spaced at 6ft off center while pile diameter is 2 5ft. Figure a 1 retaining wall cross section. Unit weight of concrete ɣ c. The soil is uniform as shown in the figure.

Design the sheet pile and the ground achors with allowable stress methodology and obtain a wall embedment safety factor of 1 5. Include 600 psf traffic surcharge 1ft behind the wall for a length of 20ft. Pilaster masonry walls 19. Segmental retaining walls 17.

To take into account the friction between the wall and the soil we use friction angle δ φ 2. Unit weight of water ɣ w. Pier and pile foundations 11. 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.

Soil bearing capacity q all. Designing the cantilever wall stem 9. Sheet pile design by pile buck harry a. Design of cantilevered wall granular soil.

Lindahl and don c. Coefficient of soil friction ф. Warrington pile buck international 2007. Counterfort retaining walls 12.

Restrained non yielding walls 20. 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. A cantilevered sheet pile wall performs somewhat like a. Design of cantilevered wall granular soil.

The retaining wall is fixed to the reinforced concrete slab. Sheet pile walls. 30 unit weight of soil ɣ s. A sheet pile wall is required to support a 12 excavation.

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. Cantilever retaining walls can be precast in a factory or formed on site and considered economical up to about 25 ft in height.