Input Parameters

Vertical Height of wall , H [m]= 7 Soil type = Dense to very dense sands
Face batter, α = 0 Cohesion, c [kpa]= 0
Backslope angle, β= 0 Friction angle, φ = 28
Nailing type= Driven unit weight, ϒ [kN/m3]= 17
Soil nailing spacing Sh = Sv [m]= 0.5 Qu [kpa] = 3
Soil nail inclination, i = 25 Surcharge qs [kpa] = 0
Soil nail tenile strength, fy [Mpa] = 415 Sv1 = 0.25
FOS against nail tensile failure, FST = 1.8 T1 [kN]= 0.38
Ѱ= 59

Active pressure Ka = 0.361033

Maximum axial force Tmax [kN] = 10.74075
Required cross section area of nail bar At [mm] = 46.58637
Selecting approprite dia of bar for Soil Nailing = 20 Ok
ultimate bond strength (from field pullout q [kpa] = 47.74648
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Minimum Length of soil nail is adopted as maximum L 1 and L2

L1 [m] = 3.74899

L2 [m]= 4.2

L [m] = 4.2

Summary:
Adopt driven soil nails of 20 mm diamter and 4.2 m length

Determination of Weight of failure wedge W [kN/m] = 250.2584

W
Surcharge on wedge QT [kN/m] 0
Global stability saftey factor FSG under FSG = 1.372503
static condion is given by

Weight of wedge W [kN/m] = 499.8

Total active lateral Earth pressure PA = 150.3704
Sliding stability factor of soil nail wall FSSL = 1.767291
Dense to very dense sands

Allowable axial force carrying capacity of nails at different levels

Allowable biaxial
Effective Nail pull out Nail tensile force carrying
Nail No. depth of nail pullout capacity Rp capacity RT [kN] capacity of nail Tall
length Lp [m] [kN] [kN]

1 0.25 0.704343422 2.113030266 130.376095124 2.1130302656

2 0.75 0.963280946 2.889842839 130.376095124 2.8898428385
3 1.25 1.22221847 3.666655411 130.376095124 3.6666554114
4 1.75 1.481155995 4.443467984 130.376095124 4.4434679844
5 2.25 1.740093519 5.220280557 130.376095124 5.2202805573
6 2.75 1.999031043 5.99709313 130.376095124 5.9970931302
7 3.25 2.257968568 6.773905703 130.376095124 6.7739057031
8 3.75 2.516906092 7.550718276 130.376095124 7.550718276
9 4.25 2.775843616 8.327530849 130.376095124 8.3275308489
10 4.75 3.034781141 9.104343422 130.376095124 9.1043434219
11 5.25 3.293718665 9.881155995 130.376095124 9.8811559948
12 5.75 3.552656189 10.65796857 130.376095124 10.6579685677
13 6.25 3.811593714 11.43478114 130.376095124 11.4347811406
14 6.75 4.070531238 12.21159371 130.376095124 12.2115937135
∑Tall = 100.272367854
Allowable axial force carrying capacity T all [kN] of nail emeded at depth z is the minimum of R p and
RT.

Teq [kN/m] = 200.544735708

 FOS against FOS against nail
Depth of nail z Axial tensile pullout failure tensile strength
soil No. [m] force T [kN] FSp failure (FST)Z

1 0.25 0.383598076 5.508448547 339.876822141

2 0.75 1.150794229 2.511172516 113.292274047
3 1.25 1.917990381 1.91171731 67.9753644282
4 1.75 2.685186534 1.654807936 48.5538317344
5 2.25 3.452382686 1.512080506 37.764091349
6 2.75 4.219578838 1.421253959 30.8978929219
7 3.25 4.986774991 1.358374042 26.1443709339
8 3.75 5.753971143 1.312262104 22.6584548094
9 4.25 6.521167296 1.277000033 19.9927542436
10 4.75 7.288363448 1.249161555 17.8882537969
11 5.25 8.055559601 1.226625645 16.1846105781
12 5.75 8.822755753 1.208009024 14.7772531366
13 6.25 9.589951905 1.192371062 13.5950728856
14 6.75 10.35714806 1.179049835 12.5880304497