Spring Constant for Slurry Wall Design
Spring Constant for Slurry Wall Design
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Anyone have any thoughts on reasonable approach for spring constant for slurry wall design (to support structure vertical loads)?
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Spring Constant for Slurry Wall Design
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RE: Spring Constant for Slurry Wall Design
Do you need spring stiffness (dimensions: force/lenght) or the coefficient of subgrade reaction (dimensions: force/lenght^3)?
What are width, lenght and depth of the slurry wall(s)? Elastic and Shear moduli of soil? Any results of load tests?
I'm interested since I never came across such a problem. I would do just as above first and judge if the result is reasonable.
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RE: Spring Constant for Slurry Wall Design
RE: Spring Constant for Slurry Wall Design
I'll ruminate about it, if there is no simple solution I'm afraid you'll have to do it rigorousluy by the definition: K = W/s where W is the load in units of force, s the settlement in units of lenght. In lieu of load tests the settlements must be calculated by the elastic theory or FEM methods.
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