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    This document contains information about geotechnical problems involving sheet pile walls and retaining walls. It includes a problem about calculating the factor of safety, flow rate, and porewater pressures around a sheet pile wall. It also contains problems calculating active earth pressures and forces on retaining walls using Rankine's theory for cohesive and cohesionless soils. Variables like soil properties, groundwater levels, and wall dimensions are provided to calculate values like active earth pressure diagrams, resultant forces, and tensile crack depths.

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    This document contains information about geotechnical problems involving sheet pile walls and retaining walls. It includes a problem about calculating the factor of safety, flow rate, and porewater pressures around a sheet pile wall. It also contains problems calculating active earth pressures and forces on retaining walls using Rankine's theory for cohesive and cohesionless soils. Variables like soil properties, groundwater levels, and wall dimensions are provided to calculate values like active earth pressure diagrams, resultant forces, and tensile crack depths.

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    This document contains information about geotechnical problems involving sheet pile walls and retaining walls. It includes a problem about calculating the factor of safety, flow rate, and porewater pressures around a sheet pile wall. It also contains problems calculating active earth pressures and forces on retaining walls using Rankine's theory for cohesive and cohesionless soils. Variables like soil properties, groundwater levels, and wall dimensions are provided to calculate values like active earth pressure diagrams, resultant forces, and tensile crack depths.

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    Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering

    Department of Infrastructure & Geomatic Engineering

    Subject: Geotechnics II (BFC 34402)


    1. Figure 1 shows the flow net of the sheet pile. The soil is homogenous and isotropic and
    the coefficient of permeability is 3 x 10-5 m/s. The specific gravity and the void ratio of
    the soil are 2.65 and 0.85 respectively.
    (a) Calculate Factor safety in term of piping or boiling (Fpiping).
    (b) Calculate the flow rate, q around the sheet pile.
    (c) Determine the porewater pressure at point B, M, N, P, R and E.
    (d) Determine the force acting on the sheet pile at the upstream side below the ground
    surface.

    6m

    0.75 m

    P
    R

    Figure 1: Flownet
    Solution:
    a) Nf = 5, Nd = 13, H = 6-0.75 = 5.25m so, h= 5.25/13 = 0.4 m

    G s  1 2.65  1
    Icr    0.89
    1 e 1  0.85
    Iexit = h/Lexit = 0.4/2.16 = 0.19

    Icr 0.89
    Fpiping    4.7
    Iexit 0.19

    UTHM | Ts. MOHD FAIRUS YUSOF 1


    Nf 5
    kH  3 x 105  5.25   6.06  105 m 2 / s
    b) Flow rate, q = Nd 13

    c) Pore Pressure
    Point B = 9.81 x 6 = 58.86 kN/m2
    Point M = [6 - (0.4 x 1)] x 9.81 = 54.94 kN/m2
    Point N = [6 - (0.4 x 2)] x 9.81 = 51.01 kN/m2
    Point P = [6 - (0.4 x 3)] x 9.81 = 47.09 kN/m2
    Point R = [6 - (0.4 x 4)] x 9.81 = 43.16 kN/m2
    Point E = [6 - (0.4 x 5)] x 9.81 = 39.24 kN/m2

    Sheet pile

    58.86 kN/m2 B
    P1 2.1 m
    54.94 kN/m2 M
    P2 1.9 m
    51.01 kN/m2 N
    P3 1.6 m
    47.09 kN/m2 P
    P4 1.1 m
    43.16 kN/m2 R
    P5 1.0 m
    39.24 kN/m2 E

    P1 = ½ x (58.86 + 54.94) x 2.1 = 119.49 kN/m2


    P2 = ½ x (54.94+ 51.01) x 1.9 = 100.65 kN/m2
    P3 = ½ x (51.01+ 47.09) x 1.6 = 78.48 kN/m2
    P4 = ½ x (47.09+ 43.16) x 1.1 = 49.64 kN/m2
    P5 = ½ x (43.16+ 39.24) x 1.0 = 41.2 kN/m2
    389.46 kN/m2
    So, the total force = 389.46 kN/m2

    UTHM | Ts. MOHD FAIRUS YUSOF 2


    2. The retaining wall shown in Figure 3. Determine the active earth pressure diagram by
    Rankine theory and the location of the resultant force.

     = 19 kN/m2
    5m
     = 10°
    c = 10 kN/m2

    Ka 
    1  sin  1  sin 10

    o
     

    0.826
     0.704
    Solution:
    1  sin  1  sin 10 o
     1.174

    2c ' 2  10 20
    Zc     1.25 m
     Ka 19  0.704 15.94
    =

    2c' K a  2  10  0.704  16.78


    kN/m2
    Kah- 2cKa = 0.704 x 19 x 5 – 2 x 10 x 0.704 = 66.88 – 16.78 = 50.1 kN/m2
    Active force, Pa = ½ x 50.01 x 3.75 = 93.77 kN/m length
    Location of resultant force = 1/3 x 3.75 = 1.25 m from the bottom

    16.78
    kN/m2
    1.25 m

    3.75 m
    Pa = 93.77
    kN/m

    50.01
    kN/m2

    UTHM | Ts. MOHD FAIRUS YUSOF 3


    3. A retaining wall was constructed to support a saturated soil as shown in Figure 2. From
    site investigation report, the cohesion (c) and friction angle are 25 kN/m 2 and 0
    respectively. The ground water table is located far from the ground surface. Determine
    the following values:
    (a) The maximum depth of a tensile crack
    (b) The force (Pa) before the tensile crack occurs
    (c) The force (Pa) after the tensile crack occurs
    (d) The force (Pa) if the water table raised to 2 m below the ground surface at the back
    of the retaining wall..

    Saturated clay
    sat = 19 kN/m2
    7m
     =0
    c = 25 kN/m2

    2c '
    Zc 
     Ka
    Formula:
    Solution:

    Ka 
    1  sin  1  sin 0

    o

    1
     
    a)
    1  sin  1  sin 0o  
    2c ' 2  25 50
    Zc     2.63 m
     Ka 19  1 19
    =

    UTHM | Ts. MOHD FAIRUS YUSOF 4


    b) Before the tensile crack occur, Height, h = 7 m
    Pa = ½ Kah2 – 2cKah = ½ x 1 x 19 x 72 – 2 x 25 x 1 x 7= 465.5 – 350 = 115.5 kN/m
    length

    c) After the tensile crack occur, height = 7 m – 2.63 m = 4.37 m

    2c ' K a  2  25  1  50
    kN/m2
    Lateral pressure = Kah- 2cKa = 1 x 19 x 7 – 2 x 25 x 1 = 133 – 50 = 83 kN/m2
    Active force, Pa = ½ x 83 x 4.37 = 181.36 kN/m length
    Location of resultant force = 1/3 x 4.37 = 1.46 m from the bottom

    2.63 m
    4.37 m

    50 kN/m2
    83 kN/m2

    kN/m
    Pa = 181.36

    d) The maximum tension crack now is 2.0 m because the present of water.

    2c ' K a  2  25  1  50
    kN/m2
    Ka1h1 + Ka2h2 - 2cKa
    = [1 x 19 x 2] + [1 x (19-9.81) x 5] – 2 x 25 x 1 = 83.95 – 50 = 33.95 kN/m2
    Active force, Pa due to soil= ½ x 33.95 x 5 = 84.88 kN/m length
    Active force, Pa due to water= ½ x 9.81 x 52 = 122.63 kN/m length
    Total active force Pa = 84.88 + 122.63 = 207.51 kN/m length
    Location of resultant force = 1/3 x 5 = 1.67 m from the bottom

    UTHM | Ts. MOHD FAIRUS YUSOF 5


    2.0 m
    5.0 m

    50 kN/m2
    52.33 kN/m2

    Pa = 122.63 kN/m
    Pa = 84.88 kN/m

    49.05 kN/m2

    UTHM | Ts. MOHD FAIRUS YUSOF 6

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