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Abstract An effective way to retain a soil mass is by installing a vertical wall consisting of long thin elements (steel, concrete or wood), that are being driven into the ground. The elements are usually connected by joints, consisting of special forms of the element at the two ends. Compared to a massive wall (of concrete or stone), a sheet pile wall is a flexible structure, in which bending moments will be developed by the lateral load, and that should be designed so that they can withstand the largest bending moments. Several methods of analysis have been developed, of different levels of complexity. The simplest methods, that will be discussed in this chapter, are based on convenient assumptions regarding the stress distribution against the sheet pile wall. These methods have been found very useful in engineering practice, even though they contain some rather drastic approximations.
Abstract An effective way to retain a soil mass is by installing a vertical wall consisting of long thin elements (steel, concrete or wood), that are being driven into the ground. The elements are usually connected by joints, consisting of special forms of the element at the two ends. Compared to a massive wall (of concrete or stone), a sheet pile wall is a flexible structure, in which bending moments will be developed by the lateral load, and that should be designed so that they can withstand the largest bending moments. Several methods of analysis have been developed, of different levels of complexity. The simplest methods, that will be discussed in this chapter, are based on convenient assumptions regarding the stress distribution against the sheet pile wall. These methods have been found very useful in engineering practice, even though they contain some rather drastic approximations.
Sheet Pile Walls
Verruijt, Arnold (author)
2017-07-26
10 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Wiley | 2023
| ASCE | 2021
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1957
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1956