Earth retaining system such as a sheet pile wall with integral soil anchors
AssigneePeratrovich, Nottingham & Drage, Inc.
InventorWilliam Dennis Nottingham
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Abstract
A soil retaining system combining flat sheet pile walls in an open cell configuration includes integral soil anchors to provide an earth retaining system. A method of designing and installing a soil retaining system with an open sheet pile cell structure having integral soil anchors. The method includes, inter alia, calculating soil forces by taking into account material strength of sheet pile, soil friction against the sheet pile in combination with the strength of the integral soil anchor, selecting sheet pile size and length based on soil forces calculation; and installation of sheet pile to form a soil retaining system. The integral soil anchors serve to provide higher load resistance to the earth retaining system.
Claims5
An installed earth retaining system using sheet pile having integral retaining anchors comprising;
- a plurality of interlocking substantially flat sheet pile, the sheet pile having a first edge, a second edge, an exterior face and an interior face, the first and the second edge positioned along opposite edges of the sheet pile, wherein adjacent edges of adjoining sheet pile interlock to form a wall, the wall including at least one of an arcuate face wall formed by directly interconnecting the sheet piles, and at least one of a tailwall coupled to the face wall;
- a connection member between the tailwall and the facewall;
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- at least one retaining anchor integral to the sheet pile, wherein the sheet pile provide resistance in a direction normal to the face of the pile and the retaining anchors provide resistance in a direction less than normal to the face wherein the retaining anchor increase soil resistance of the overall system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.