Basement construction

Overview

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Singapore Wall collapse
Singapore Wall collapse
Dubai excavation
Dubai excavation
Dubai excavation
Dubai excavation
Maari Gravity Platform

150m
 Slope instability

Tension crack

Slip
Ship arriving
for platform
loadout
 Geometry

Sand fill

6m of dredging just
Very
completed
soft clay
20m
Very
soft clay
 Collapse mechanism

Sand fill

6m of dredging just
Very
completed
soft clay
20m
Very
soft clay
 Response

Removed

6m of dredging just
Very
completed
soft clay
20m
Very
soft clay
Sheet pile wall collapse
Wembley
Perth CBD
Sample cracks
Wall types and support systems
Cantilever sheet pile wall, Perth
Cantilever jetty sheet pile
Sheet piles for Esplanade station
Cofferdam construction
Giken wall
Permanent sheet piles
Diaphragm wall construction
Diaphragm wall construction
Cage installation in D-wall, William St.
Diaphragm wall, Raffles
Westralia square
Circular excavation with D-wall
Excavation sequence for circular D-wall
Contiguous wall, West Perth
Contiguous wall (4 anchor levels)
Widely spaced contiguous wall
Kingpost/Soldier pile wall
Top propping to contiguous wall
Typical prop arrangement
Temporary top props, Perth
Propping for wide excavations
Propping at Launch box, The Esplanade
 Strut temperature variations, The Esplanade

800 50

45

40

Temperature (degrees)
700
35
Load (kN)

30

25
600
20
Load
15
Temp
500 10
14/04/05 15/04/05 16/04/05 17/04/05
Date

Daily cyclic movements of wall of ±10mm

Multi-level propping
Concrete top props
Multi-level anchors
Temporary & permanent props
Soil nailing/shotcreting, Perth
Anchor installation, Perth
Anchor tensioning
Top-down construction
Raffles/top-down
 Steps for wall design
• Site stratigraphy and soil stiffness/strength
parameters
• Groundwater regime
• Examine potential failure mechanism using
factored soil strength parameters (including
mechanisms dealt with by STAWAL)
• Assess most suitable wall type(s)
Determination of water pressures

Examine implications of
vertical and lateral
permeability variations
Wall design: Read CIRIA C580 BP098b.12
 STAWAL

Use factored soil strength parameters to

determine required wall embedment:
for two possible mechanisms
 Cantilever Wall

Ho Active

Passive

do
d O

Base Passive
Active
 Single propped wall
Wall displacement
O
O Anchor
Ho Active
Passive

Pressure distribution

For two (competent) props – wall collapse is not possible

STAWAL: Determine wall embedment for ULS
 Soil parameters for ULS
Use factored soil strengths (φ'm c'm sum)

φ'm= tan-1(φgφ φ') c'm= φgc c’

sum=φgsu su

Only use c’≠0 if absolutely certain of cementation in soil

Use simple shear undrained strength (su) – typically
80% of TX strength
Other external failure mechanisms

FREW/STAWAL – not much use !

Internal failure mechanisms

=> structural calculations