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
It may seem odd on this site, but we present the Delmag Guide to Driving Sheet Piles, which Delmag (a one-time competitor of Vulcan's) put out many years ago. It's a nice and comprehensive guide to the subject for impact hammers; it's a subject that's not always well understood. Diesel hammers (in Europe at least, … Continue reading Delmag on Driving Sheet Piles
Below is a video tour of the SPW 2006 sheet pile software, the academic use software developed by Dr. Arnold Verruijt at the University of Delft. https://youtu.be/_-wld-TBRpY You can download the software here Here is the tutorial series on the software: Analyzing Sheet Pile Walls with SPW 2006: Part I, Introduction (with another place to download … Continue reading SPW 2006 Sheet Pile Software Video Tour
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
A few years ago I put out an article entitled Partying Like It’s 1987: Running WEAP87 and SPILE (and other programs) on DOSBox, where I describe the use of DOSBox in running engineering software (and also Windows 3.1.) A great deal of engineering software developed in the DOS era can still be used for engineering design … Continue reading Is the Best Place to Run Old Windows Software…on Linux or a Mac?
An ad in Engineering News-Record, 8 October 1931, for the Vulcan Pile Extractor. It was used to extract arch web Lackawanna sheeting by the P.J. Kennedy & Co. of Holyoke, MA. Vulcan touted the advantages of a "single purpose machine" (as opposed to MKT's multipurpose hammer/extractors. MKT must have gotten the message, they developed the … Continue reading “Much Favorable Comment” for the Vulcan Extractor
The photo above, dating from 1949, shows a worker tightening the bolts on the connecting links of a Vulcan extractor to the top of a prepared sheet piling in preparation to impact the sheeting upwards and take it out. This photo was used for many years in Vulcan literature, including Vulcan Bulletin 71B. (Note: don't … Continue reading Vulcan’s Most Famous Sheet Piling/Extractor Photo
The third in our series of vulcanhammer.net ads for Pile Buck include this one, showing a Nilens diesel hammer driving sheet piling using a “spud” or “rail” type leader in the back. Nilens was one of Vulcan’s more interesting adventures in pile driving equipment. The method used is a typically European practice that has found […] … Continue reading Pile Buck Ads 3: Nilens Diesel Hammer Driving Sheet Piles — vulcanhammer.net
The monograph Anchored Sheet Pile Wall Analysis Using Fixed End Method Without Estimation of Point of Contraflexure, which appeared on this site very early in its existence (October 2007) has been very popular. The online routine described in the report, which you can use, is no longer available. The abstract for the paper is found here: … Continue reading Anchored Sheet Pile Wall Analysis Using Fixed End Method Without Estimation of Point of Contraflexure
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