Cantilever Sheet Pile Retaining Wall Design Example

Design of cantilevered wall granular soil.

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. 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. Lindahl and don c. Unit weight of water ɣ w.

Figure a 1 retaining wall cross section. Restrained non yielding walls 20. A cantilevered sheet pile wall performs somewhat like a. Sheet pile design by pile buck harry a.

Cantilever retaining walls can be precast in a factory or formed on site and considered economical up to about 25 ft in height. Designing the cantilever wall stem 9. Reinforced piles spaced at 6ft off center while pile diameter is 2 5ft. 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.

Warrington pile buck international 2007. Include 600 psf traffic surcharge 1ft behind the wall for a length of 20ft. Wood retaining walls 14. Design of cantilevered wall granular soil.

Counterfort retaining walls 12. Pilaster masonry walls 19. Coefficient of soil friction ф. The retaining wall is fixed to the reinforced concrete slab.

30 unit weight of soil ɣ s. Segmental retaining walls 17. Assuming that the allowable bearing pressure of the soil is 120 knm 2 the. Design the sheet pile and the ground achors with allowable stress methodology and obtain a wall embedment safety factor of 1 5.

Cantilevered tilt up walls 13. 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. Unit weight of concrete ɣ c. Swimming pool walls 18.

Civiltech softwareshoring examples 1. Pier and pile foundations 11. A sheet pile wall is required to support a 12 excavation. Sheet pile walls.

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. To take into account the friction between the wall and the soil we use friction angle δ φ 2.