Sheet Pile Retaining Walls - LRFD
Sheet Pile Retaining Walls - LRFD
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PennDOT has changed their Support of Excavation Specification to require that sheet pile retaining walls be designed using LRFD. Having no experience with LRFD in this application, I'm looking for references that would explain / teach the LRFD application to sheet pile design.
Pile Buck is not an option. They billed my account, did not send the manual but did give me access to a website. They advertised that the new manual would contain LRFD but it is only a paragraph at the end of a chapter regarding sheet pile.
Pile Buck is not an option. They billed my account, did not send the manual but did give me access to a website. They advertised that the new manual would contain LRFD but it is only a paragraph at the end of a chapter regarding sheet pile.





RE: Sheet Pile Retaining Walls - LRFD
RE: Sheet Pile Retaining Walls - LRFD
RE: Sheet Pile Retaining Walls - LRFD
Contact FHWA by telephone to order a free copy of HI-98-032. Not available for download, unfortunately, but a good reference for explaining the philosophy and calculation difference between LRFD and working or allowable stress design. See h
See also the fhwa LRFD site at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/lrfd/index.htm
and the AASHTO LRFD site at http://br
Hope this helps,
Jeff
Jeffrey T. Donville, PE
TTL Associates, Inc.
www.ttlassoc.com
The views or opinions expressed by me are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of my employer.
RE: Sheet Pile Retaining Walls - LRFD
Have you looked at the AASHTO LRFD specification yet?
If you don't have a copy yet, you will need one soon as FHWA is (effectively) mandating all DOTs to use LRFD starting in 2007.
Nongravity retaining walls (sheet pile walls) are covered in Section 11 of AASHTO LRFD. However, the loading is in Section 3.
RE: Sheet Pile Retaining Walls - LRFD
Is this trend just a policy we are all following like sheep? Does anyone want to comment on its validity for these type of earth retaining structures utilizing passive pressure as resistance.
VOD