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Cantilever Sheet Pile Design - Worked Example

This document provides a worked example for designing a cantilever sheet pile wall in cohesionless soil. It outlines the steps to calculate lateral earth pressures, balance point depth, resultant force, moment, bending stresses, and penetration depth required for the sheet pile wall design.

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Cantilever Sheet Pile Design - Worked Example

This document provides a worked example for designing a cantilever sheet pile wall in cohesionless soil. It outlines the steps to calculate lateral earth pressures, balance point depth, resultant force, moment, bending stresses, and penetration depth required for the sheet pile wall design.

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CE4821 - Foundation Engineering II (Year 2021)

Cantilever Sheet Pile Wall Design in Cohesionless Design - Worked Example

GL
A Given Parameters of Sand

L1 = 2 m Bulk Unit weight γ= 16 kN/m3


Effective cohesion C' = 0 kN/m2
1 W.T C σ'1 Effective friction φ= 32 deg

L Sat. Unit weight γ = 20 kN/m3


L2 = 3 m Effective cohesion C' = 0 kN/m2
Effective friction φ = 32 deg
Dredging level D σ'2 Water unit weight γω = 9.81 kN/m3
2
L3 1) Finding Earth Pressure Coefficients (EPC)

E Active EPC Ka = 0.31


2
D Ka = tan (45-Ф/2)
L4
F F' Passive EPC Kp = 3.25
Kp = tan2(45+Ф/2)
L5
3
H σ'3 B σ'4 G

2) Lateral Earth Pressures

Unit wt. Eff.unit wt. Lat.pressure Hor. Pressure


Point EPC
(kN/m3) (kN/m3) γH*K (kN/m2) γH (kN/m2)
C 16 Ka 0.31 (L1*γ)*Ka 9.83 σ'1
D 20 10.19 Ka 0.31 (L1*γ+L2*γ')*Ka 19.23 σ'2

3) Calculate balance point below dredge/exacavation line

L3 = σ'2 / γ'(Kp-Ka) or, L3 = 0.64 m

4) Calculate resultant force P (Area of ACDE)

P = 1/2*σ'1*L1 + σ'1*L2 + 1/2*(σ'2 - σ'1)*L2 + 1/2σ'2 * L3

P = 59.57 kN/ m run

5) Take Moment about E (for ACDEA) to find Ẑ

P x Ẑ = [1/2*σ'1]*(L1/3+L2+L3) + [σ'1*L2] * (L3+L2/2) + [1/2*(σ'2 - σ'1)*L2] * (L3+L2/3)


+ [1/2σ'2 * L3] * (L3/3)

Ẑ = 2.18 m

6) Find σ'5

σ'5= (γL1 + γ'L2) * Kp + γ'L3 * (Kp-Ka)

σ'5= 222.9 kN/m2


7) Find components A1, A2, A3 and A4

A1 = 7.421

A2 = 15.87

A3 = 140.2

A4 = 208.3

8) Solve for L4

Trial and error method,


Input L4 Output L4
4.000 -292
5.000 246.5
4.500 -74.3
4.800 104.6
4.735 62.45 [Choose the one closest to 'zero']

9) Calculate σ'4

σ'4 = σ'5 + γ'L4 * (Kp-Ka)

σ'4 = 365.1 kN/m2

10) Calculate σ'3

σ'3 = γ'L4 * (Kp-Ka)

σ'3 = 142.2 kN/m2

11) Calculate L5

L5 = (σ'3 * L4 - 2P)/(σ'3 + σ'4)

L5 = 1.093 m

12) Calculate theoritical Penetration (D):

D = L3 + L4
D = 5.375 m [Continue to complete the
calculation and find the
13) Calculate actual penetration (1.2 ~ 1.4 D) Maximum bending moment,
and choose the sheet
Dactual = 7.0 m pile section]

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