Determining Bearing Resistance of Cantilever Sheet Piles

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• Creators:
  Song, Xiaoyu ; Taghavi, Amirata ; Menon, Shashank ; Wang, Kaiqi ; Zhang, Zhe
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Florida. Dept. of Civil and Coastal Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  Florida Department of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Retaining walls
  • Sheet piling
  • Structural analysis
  • Design methods
  • Bearing capacity
  • Finite element method
  • Design engineering
  • Centrifuge
• Publication/ Report Number:
  AWD03567
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida ; United States
• Edition:
  Final Report: Apr 2018 – Apr 2022
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Sheet pile walls are structures that FDOT has only used for permanent and temporary lateral support. The Department has not allowed these elements to be used as vertical load bearing elements because of the inability to confirm bearing resistance during construction. Current FDOT practice requires discrete deep foundation (piles or drilled shafts) for bearing purposes, which may or may not be combined with permanent sheet piles for lateral retaining purposes. Some designers have previously considered using sheet piles to support both vertical bridge loads and lateral earth loads; however, the concept has not survived final design due to the inability to confirm the capacity of these elements in the field and accept them as bearing piles. For end bents of small bridges, there is a potential for realizing savings if we can verify the axial resistance of the sheet piling and eliminate the need for separate deep foundations. This would relieve the complications that arise in construction when driving piles and sheet piles in close proximity.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  BDV31 977-90
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/72411/dot_72411_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 16.07 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9e7fde1c2a690248bee6c5f952d128bb4b7a29cfe1b80ee7bc61a9846c5d2ab8