Category: Vulcan and Sheet Piling

Virtually all sheet pile walls are vertical; thus, it is not necessary to worry about the wall angle when considering lateral earth pressure coefficients for these walls. This means that equations for vertical walls and vertical walls with level backfills are all that is left. First, a complete chart, showing the nomenclature, from NAVFAC DM … Continue reading Coulomb and Rankine Earth Pressure Coefficients for Vertical Walls

Before the advent of CAD, Vulcan used outline, full scale drawings or actual sheeting sections to lay out sheet pile caps in full size. The drawing board(s) in Chattanooga. On the wall are sheet pile sections, cut from actual sheet piling and used to lay out sheet pile caps. In front of the sheet piling … Continue reading Sheet Pile Templates

The development of sheet piling and the Warrington-Vulcan hammers was about the same time (along with concrete piles, other types of steel piles, and the Engineering News Formula.) The years leading up to World War I were ones of rapid development in the marine construction and deep foundation industries, and Vulcan was in the middle … Continue reading Vulcan and Sheet Piling

Sheet Pile Design by Pile Buck Harry A. Lindahl and Don C. WarringtonPile Buck International2007 The successor to the classic Pile Buck Sheet Piling Design Manual, this Pile Buck exclusive is the definitive reference for the design of sheet pile walls. It covers every aspect of sheet pile design including the soil mechanics and earth … Continue reading Design of Sheet Pile Walls

In the 1960's Vulcan put out its Data Manual, which is now (with some improvements) in the vulcanhammer.info Guide to Pile Driving Equipment. Part of that gave dimensions for a wide variety of sheet piling. The purpose of this post is to use some of these illustrations to show various types of hot rolled sheet piling … Continue reading A Vulcan View of Hot-Rolled Sheet Piling

This paper presents the displacement behavior of quay wall system, using Plaxis 3D version 2013. The horizontal displacement calculated by Plaxis 3D for existing quay walls case study located in Rotterdam Port in South Holland is evaluated by the field measurements. At first, the three-dimensional numerical performance of Rotterdam existing quay wall is compared with … Continue reading Comparative Analyses of Quay Wall Case Study Using Plaxis 3D