Steel Sheet Pile Cofferdam
Steel Sheet Pile Cofferdam
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I need to design a steel sheet pile cofferdam with granular fill. It has a barge impact force of 1500 kips. All the manuals or publications talk about impact force but not about how to resolve it. The interlock tension formula can be used for internal pressure due to fill, can i use the same to resolve the 1500 kip external lateral load. Thank you.






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DOD MIL-HDBK-1025-1 piers and wharves
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The DOTs of US states that have coastal bridges should have detail standard drawings for dolphins. Try looking through the Florida DOT drawings. Here is a typical general arrangement:
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Seems like a collision with a cellular cofferdam would take place more or less a point on the circular structure and be inelastic because of the granular fill. This could damage the sheeting interlock.
Circular cofferdams, at least dewatered ones, are unstable when damaged.
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http://www.wbdg.org/ccb/DOD/UFC/ufc_4_152_01.pdf
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(Along with Blodgett)
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