Cantilever Sheet Pile Retaining Wall Design Example

Reinforced piles spaced at 6ft off center while pile diameter is 2 5ft.

Cantilever sheet pile retaining wall design example.

Pier and pile foundations 11. Design the sheet pile and the ground achors with allowable stress methodology and obtain a wall embedment safety factor of 1 5. The soil is uniform as shown in the figure. Unit weight of water ɣ w.

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. Wood retaining walls 14. Swimming pool walls 18. Figure a 1 retaining wall cross section.

To take into account the friction between the wall and the soil we use friction angle δ φ 2. Include 600 psf traffic surcharge 1ft behind the wall for a length of 20ft. Cantilevered tilt up walls 13. Segmental retaining walls 17.

Design of cantilevered wall granular soil. Sheet pile design by pile buck harry a. Coefficient of soil friction ф. Lindahl and don c.

Warrington pile buck international 2007. 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. Cantilever retaining walls can be precast in a factory or formed on site and considered economical up to about 25 ft in height. A cantilevered sheet pile wall performs somewhat like a.

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. Design of cantilevered wall granular soil. Pilaster masonry walls 19. Restrained non yielding walls 20.

Unit weight of concrete ɣ c. Counterfort retaining walls 12. 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. Designing the cantilever wall stem 9.

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. Sheet pile walls. The retaining wall is fixed to the reinforced concrete slab. Civiltech softwareshoring examples 1.

Soil bearing capacity q all. 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.