Contoh-contoh Soal

Example 6.7, Craig 2007

The sides of an excavation 2.25m deep in sand are to be supported by a cantilever sheet pile wall, the
water table being 1.25m below the bottom of the excavation. The unit weight of the sand above the
water table is 17 kN/m3 and below the water table the saturated unit weight is 20 kN/m3.
Characteristic parameters are c0 0, 0 35 and 0. Allowing for a surcharge pressure of 10 kN/m2
on the surface, (a) determine the required depth of embedment of the piling to ensure a factor of safety
of 2.0 with respect to gross passive resistance and (b) check that the rotational and translational limit
states would be satisfied for the above embedment depth, using appropriate partial factors.

Equating the algebraic sum of the moments about C to zero produces the following equation :

d =2.75m

Das , 2007-2011

Craig, 2007 Problem 6.7

An anchored sheet pile wall is constructed by driving a line of piling into a soil for which the saturated
unit weight is 21 kN/m3 and the characteristic shear strength parameters are c0 10 kN/m2 and 0
27. Backfill is placed to a depth of 8.00m behind the piling, the backfill having a saturated unit weight of
20 kN/m3, a unit weight above the water table of 17 kN/m3 and characteristic shear strength
parameters of c0 0 and 0 35. Tie rods, spaced at 2.5m centres, are located 1.5m below the surface
of the backfill. The water level in front of the wall and the water table behind the wall are both 5.00m
below the surface of the backfill. Determine the required depth of embedment for a factor of safety of
2.0 with respect to gross passive resistance and the force in each tie rod.

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