Sheet pile walls are deceptively simple retaining walls to analyse. Because a) the loads are generally distributed and b) the layering of the soil is complex, a simple problem can turn into a complicated one very rapidly. An outline of the hand solution method for cantilever walls is shown below. That's why today software such … Continue reading Designing Cantilever Sheet Pile Walls Using a Chart
For the rest of the book, click here. With the right choice of equipment and organization of work, vibratory extraction of sheet piles, as well as driving, makes it possible to use stock metal sheet piles more widely than before, which contributes to a sharp increase in labor productivity and a reduction in the cost … Continue reading Work on Vibratory Extraction of Metal Sheet Piles from the Ground
For the rest of the book, click here. In a relatively short period of time that has passed since the time when the method of vibrating immersion of metal sheet piles was successfully applied for the first time in production conditions, the vibration and crane equipment used and the methods of work have changed radically. … Continue reading Basic data of production experience and technical and economic indicators of vibration immersion of metal sheet pile
Editor's Note: the term "pile drivers" or "piling headframes" means what we would call today a dedicated rig. Before the advent of crane lifted and controlled pile driving, people would use a specialty mast type of arrangement--skid or turntable mounted--to drive piling, dragging it from one pile to the next. The arrangements shown here are … Continue reading Features of the Technology of Vibratory Immersion of Sheet Piling Using Piling Headframes
Editor's Note: this is an interesting overview of the installation of sheet piles using a crane. It can be compared with the post Installation and Extraction of Metal Sheet Piling. The composition of the main equipment for the performance of work on the vibro-immersion of a metal sheet pile, in addition to the vibratory pile driver, … Continue reading Production of Works for Immersion of Metal Sheet Piles Using Jib Cranes
For the rest of the book, click here. Editor's note: this is the beginning of the section concerning the application of vibratory drivers to sheet piles. One problem described here was keeping the sheets in alignment and now allowing them to get out of alignment (the "fan" effect described in below) which only gets progressively … Continue reading Manufacture of works on vibration immersion and extraction of metal sheet piling: General Information
The last in our series of historical sheeting sections are Belval sheeting sections, including BZ-I N, BZ-II N, BZ-III N, BZ-IV N, BZ-1 R, BZ-II R, BZ-III R, BZ-IV R, BZ-III A, BZ-IV N-50, and BZ-V N. They are all Z-sections featuring double jaw interlocks. Belval sheeting was originally from Luxembourg, not far from Vulcan's … Continue reading Historical Belval Sheeting Sections
Above are dimensions for historical sections of Frodingham sheet piles, Z-sheeting of the profiles 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4, and 5. These were later produced by British Steel Piling, at one time a major producer of sheet piling. The British sheet pile industry sponsored the research for Rowe's Moment Reduction Method for the free-end design … Continue reading Historical Frodingham Sheeting Sections
Above are Larssen sections of sheeting, including Larssen 1, 1A, 1A New, 2, 2 New, 3, 3 New, 4 New, 5, 6 and 7. Larssen sheeting was (and still is) very popular in Europe. It also figures very largely in the Soviet development of vibratory drivers and impact-vibration hammers, and appears in both Vibro-Engineering and … Continue reading Historical Larssen Sheeting Sections
Above are dimensions for WS-1, WS-2, WS-3, WS-4, WZ-22 and WZ-27, all from National Steel Corporation. Many engineers are looking for properties of these sheets (such as moment of inertia and section modulus) that Vulcan didn't have much interest in. In the 1970's, the sheet pile manufacturers changed their designations; a conversion chart for some … Continue reading Historical Sheet Pile Sections for National Steel Corporation
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