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.

Cantilever sheet pile retaining wall design example.

Civiltech softwareshoring examples 1. Soil bearing capacity q all. Assuming that the allowable bearing pressure of the soil is 120 knm 2 the. Segmental retaining walls 17.

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. Swimming pool walls 18. Designing the cantilever wall stem 9.

Cantilever retaining walls can be precast in a factory or formed on site and considered economical up to about 25 ft in height. Unit weight of concrete ɣ c. Pier and pile foundations 11. The soil is uniform as shown in the figure.

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. 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. Design of cantilevered wall granular soil. Pilaster masonry walls 19.

Figure a 1 retaining wall cross section. Design the sheet pile and the ground achors with allowable stress methodology and obtain a wall embedment safety factor of 1 5. Coefficient of soil friction ф. Include 600 psf traffic surcharge 1ft behind the wall for a length of 20ft.

Unit weight of water ɣ w. 30 unit weight of soil ɣ s. Warrington pile buck international 2007. Reinforced piles spaced at 6ft off center while pile diameter is 2 5ft.

Sheet pile design by pile buck harry a. The retaining wall is fixed to the reinforced concrete slab. Sheet pile walls. Cantilevered tilt up walls 13.

Restrained non yielding walls 20. A sheet pile wall is required to support a 12 excavation. Counterfort retaining walls 12. Wood retaining walls 14.

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