Embedded walls

 Driven sheet-pile walls

 Braced or propped walls

 Anchored wall

 Tangent or secant bored-pile walls

EARTH RETAINING STRUCTURES

Types of embedded walls

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Braced Excavation

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 Sheet Pile Wall
 Description
Consist of driven, vibrated, or pushed, interlocking steel or
concrete sheet pile sections. The required depth of
embedment (i.e. length of sheet pile below final excavated
grade) is evaluated based on the assumption that the passive
resistance of the soil in front of the wall plus flexural strength
of the sheet pile can resist the lateral forces from the soil
behind the wall

 Advantages
1. Conventional Wall System with Well established design
procedure & performance characteristics
2. Wall system can be used for application in which wall can
penetrates below ground water table
3. Wall system is suitable for temporary applications

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 Sheet Pile Wall Cont.
 Disadvantages

1. Requires specialized equipment

2. Driven sheet pile is noisy and it can be introduce vibration

3. Difficult to drive sheet in hard or dense or gravelly soil

4. Wall height is limited based on required structural

sections

5. Wall system may undergo relatively movements which

may be detrimental to nearby structure

Sheet Pile Wall

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Cantilever Sheet-Pile Walls

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Cantilever Sheet Piling Penetrating Sandy Soils

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Step-by-Step Procedure for Obtaining the
Pressure Diagram

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 Simplified method of determining D for cantilever sheet pile

The solution of the equation gives a value for D which is at least a guide to
the required depth.
The depth calculated should be increased by at least 20 percent to provide a
factor of safety and to allow extra length to develop the passive pressure

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