Steel Cantilever Sheet Pile Wall

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Steel cantilever sheet pile wall.

The various forces acting on a cantilever sheet pile wall are the active earth pressure on the back of the wall and the passive earth pressure on the front of the wall. Therefore for design of sheetpiling walls in cohesive soils the first step should be the investigation of the limiting height. Cantilever sheet pile walls cantilever walls are usually used as floodwall or as earth retaining walls with low wall heights 3 to 5 m or less. The stability number relates to kick out at the toe of the sheetpiling wall.

Generally the sheet piles are made of steel or timber. With cantilever sheet pile walls step 2 is not required. Sheet piles are sections of sheets material with interlock edges that are driven into the ground of providing earth retention and excavation support. Dredge the front side of the wall.

The sheet piling is driven to a sufficient depth into the ground to become fixed as a vertical can tilever resisting a load from active earth pressure. Steel sheet piling is the most common because of several advantages over other materials. Steel piles are suitable for permanent structures in which the depth of driving exceeds 3 m. A cantilevered sheet pile wall performs somewhat like a cantilevered beam.

Can be reused on several projects. Because cantilever walls derive their support solely from the foundation soils they may be installed in relatively close proximity to existing structures. Cantilever sheet piles are used where the height of the soil or water to be retained is smaller than 4 5 m.