- An Anchored Sheet Pile Wall Is To Be Designed To Retain 9 M Of Dry Soil In Height The Groundwater Table Can Be Assumed 1 (90.18 KiB) Viewed 49 times
An anchored sheet pile wall is to be designed to retain 9 m of dry soil in height. The groundwater table can be assumed to be very deep and would not affect the design. The unit weight of soil to be retained is 18 kN/m°, and shear strength parameters are c' = 0 and $' = 36º. Tie rods at 2 m center to center are installed 1.5 m below the surface of the backfill, (a) Calculate the active earth pressure coefficient Ka and the passive earth pressure coefficient Kp using Rankine's lateral earth pressure theory. (2 marks) (b) Applying a factor of safety of 2 to the lateral passive earth pressure and denoting the depth of penetration by d, and, calculate the earth pressure diagrams on both sides of the sheet pile wall. (10 marks)