Wang-Reese Eqn's For Ultimate Passive

Pressure

Passive soil properites

Unit weight, γ 120 pcf
drained friction angle, f 30 deg
Effective soil shear/friction factor, use 1
for dense 0.5 for loose 0.67
a 20.1 deg
Failure angle, b 60 deg
Pile properties
Width, b 10 in 0.833333 ft
Embedment, d 12 ft
Spacing, S 8 ft
Clear spacing, Sc 7.166667 ft
Point of evaluation (for passive pressure),
z 8 ft
Lateral pressure based on Rankine
Ka 0.333333
Kp 3
Ko 0.5
Soil properety coeffcients
tan f 0.57735
tan b 1.732051
tan a 0.365948
tan b-f 0.83613

Reese-Wang Eqns Passive Flow Btwn

Flow resistance pressure, Ppuflow 340969.8 plf (multiply second term by pile width?
Maximum Passive Pressure
Passive pressure for cont. wall 23040 plf
Reese-Wang Eqns Passive Wedge
Depth to intersection of wedges, di 6.346633 ft Wedges Intersect
Reese-Wang Eqns Passive Force
Passive Force/Pressure Factor Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Totals
Wedge failure, Fp 17280 1.273553 6.115156 -1.20723 106816 lbs
Passive Force subtracted due to overlap
(d=di, b=0) 4833.57 0.673565 2.777724 -0.638487 13595.87 lbs
Wedge failure, Fp net 93220.09 lbs
Reese-Wang Eqns Passive Pressure
Ultimate passive resistance, Ppu at depth
z>di 960 2.547107 12.23031 -2.414461 11868.44 plf
Ultimate passive resistance, Ppu at depth
z<=di 960 0.155133 6.064519 4.731783 10513.38 plf
Effective ult. Wedge Pass. pressure at
depth z 11868.44 plf

Effective ult. Passive pressure at depth z 11868.44 plf

Table
Depth hi passive forsubtract effective f Wedge 1
NOTE: "R" IN FWHA IS REACTION AT THE DREDGE LINE BASED ON SOIL PRESSURE FROM
ABOVE THE DREDGE LINE ONLY. (MAY NEEDTO REVISE CALCS)
wedge 2 wedge flow wedge wall wedge min wedge force (wall seg ht x wedge pressures diff
wall seg ht x wedge pressures differeance)