Pile Supported Retaining Walls
Pile Supported Retaining Walls
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I am looking for a reference for the design of pile supported cantilevered retaining walls.
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RE: Pile Supported Retaining Walls
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That said, a few things on how we have done them that seem to work.
- Deisgned the stem as a cantilever beam, with fixxed base, out of the top of the pile cap. Used simple concrete beam equations.
- Deisgned a continous pile cap along the length of the wall that was able to transmit the moment from the base of the wall (torsion to a cross-ection of the pile cap).
-Spaced a set of 2 piles ( on front, one in back) at required spacing along the length of the wall to take the sum of the moments between the sets of piles. The back pile was placed directly beneath the wall stem, as the moment from the stem causes uplift to the back pile, so we tried to keep as much of the weight of the stem over this pile to reduce the tension in the pile. The front pile then takes the compression, so we wanted to keep as much weight off of this pile as possible.
-Used the dowel from the pile cap into the stem wall as both the dowel to the stem wall and the pile cap reinforcing by hooking the end with 180 hook.
- Have had to batter one or both of the pile to take out the horizontal thrust at the base as did not have anywhere near the pssive soil pressure in front of the pile cap to handle it.
A couple of these walls got pretty big. For an 20' tall wall (40 psf equivalent fluid pressure, I seem to recall) we had a 2'-0" thick stem with #9's at 8" o.c and pairs of piles (100 ton capacity piles) at 4'-0" o.c.
Hope it helps a little. Good luck with this.
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Chapter 10 is on pile/pier founations.
Though this book does not deal directly with the pogram, it is marketed by the RetainPro people. RetainPro is a pretty darn good program that will do pile foundations for retaining walls as well.