Sheet pile and soil elements

Parameter's and Dimension's

Analysis Methodology used

Finite element method

Height of the cantilever pile

10.5 meter

Width of the sheet pile

0.5 meter

Type of the soil element

Quad element with plane strain conditions

Soil element

0.5 m x 0.5 m

Total number of soil elements in contact with

pile on each side

20

Distance of sheet pile from nearest soil element

0.25 m

Total number of soil elements on each side of

pile

200

Fixidity codition

Bottam most and side most layers

Slave nodes

Soil elements

Interface between sheet pile and surrounding

soil domain

2D beam-solid contact elements

BeamContact2D elements links

2 master nodes to a slave node

Contact condition simulation

Lagrange multiplier

Constitutive behavior of the interface

Contact Material 2D (nD Material)

Constitutive model

Coulomb frictional law

1.Principles of Foundation Engineering

by Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science Braja M Das (Author)
2. NPTEL
Civil Engineering
Foundation Engineering (Web)
Cantilever sheet pile :- http://nptel.ac.in/courses/105101083/30
3.Excavation Supported by Cantilevered Sheet Pile Wall
a) http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/index.php/Examples
b)http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/index.php/Excavation_Supported_by_Cantilevered_Sheet_Pile
_Wall
4.Foundation Engineering by Varghese P.C (Author)
5.Foundation Engineering by Author: Chattopadhyay Bikash Chandra & Maity Joyanta
6.OpenSees version 2.0 manual :- http://opensees.berkeley.edu/OpenSees/manuals/usermanual/
7.MATLAB manual:- http://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/getting-started-with-matlab.html