How can I model a weak rock in sheet pile retaining wall software
How can I model a weak rock in sheet pile retaining wall software
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I am undertaking the analysis of a Sheet pile combi-wall. The site is underlain by a weak layer of sandstone and I wish to model the wall as being driven in 1 metre into this layer to act as a keyed toe. I am looking for some information on how i can correlate a phi and c value for weak sandstone to input into the software. I am using WALLAP to model the wall. Thanks in advance.





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RE: How can I model a weak rock in sheet pile retaining wall software
I have in the past year or so seen quite a few projects call for penetration farily deep (1.5 meters or so) into weathered rock. Generally the piles fetch up in the soils overlying the rock.
I would suggest taking a look at the practicality of driving so deep into this layer.
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Actually yes, very little damage believe or not. That's the nice thing about sheet piles, you can pull them out and check them again if you have to before reinserting them into the ground, and we did that with all of them. It was a relatively slow operation, but we did not have another choice. Piles were 12 to 17m long.
Furthermore, out 347 piles driven we had only three that experienced significant damage which was mainly due to unclutching caused generally when the tip of the pile encountered a relatiely harder element and started deviating to end up with a twisted pile.