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vibration of vibratory hammer in sheet pile driving

Thread starter johnlai
Start date Mar 13, 2006

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Mar 13, 2006

johnlai

Structural

I am investigating vibrations due to sheetpile driving to an existing pipeline.
I have an equation for peak particle velocity

v = square root ( 2*c/ZL*wr)

wr = energy transferred to the pile.
My question is : what is the unit of wr in metric?
Is it Joules?