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Design of Sheet Piles
Design of Sheet Piles
b) Anchored piles
When the height of the backfill material behind a cantilever sheet-
pile wall exceeds about tying the wall near the top to anchor plates,
anchor walls, or anchor piles becomes more economical.
The two basic methods of designing anchored sheet-pile walls are
(a) the free earth support method and (b) the fixed earth support
method.
Free earth support
Example:
An anchored sheet pile is placed 1 m below the ground level behind
the sheet pile as in figure below. Calculate the minimum depth of
embedment (d) to provide stability using:
a) the Eurocode 7 (EC 7) Geo limit state approach and,
b) the gross pressure method taking FS for passive resistance = 2
γ = 20 kN/m3
ϕ’ = 30o
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