Steel Sheet Pile Bulkhead

The most common materials for seawalls and bulkheads are steel concrete and timber.

Steel sheet pile bulkhead.

The pile transfers pressure from the high side of the wall to the soil in front of the wall. The top of the wall is 1 m below the ground surface. Its also stability depends upon the formation of enough lateral resistance of soil adjacent to the embedded length of the bulkhead and upon the anchor rods. 4 3 4 high strength sheet piling.

This grade has been satisfactory for most applications in that it provided a relatively high yield point for design and a high ultimate strength for drivability. Steel sheet piling is the most widely used bulkhead material. Shunli steel group the chairman company of specialized committee china cold formed sheet piles is also known as the first level cold formed sheet pile manufacturer vice chairman company of chinese confederation of roll forming industry national high technology enterprise jiangsu famous trademark and excellent enterprise in cold formed steel industry. Steel sheet piling with yield strengths of 50 000 psi 14 66 x 107kg mm2 or greater are commercially available.

Steel piles can be driven into the foundation without extensive excavation. According to the sheet pile material a bulkhead may be classified as flexible or rigid. Grades of sheet piling steel. There is no difference in the stress calculation.

Design moment would be considered equivalent. In temporary cofferdams the sheet piles can be braced. Then any hot rolled steel piling section meeting the required 75 8 k in ft. The vertical load capacity of a sheet pile would be similar to that of an h pile or pipe.

Figures 22 and 23 illustrate some steel sections which are available from non domestic sources and some devices for strengthening commercially available domestic materials. When a flexible bulkhead usually made of steel piles deflects and bends under the effect of a lateral force. Shoreline steel began manufacturing steel piling in 1983 and has established a worldwide reputation as a provider of quality american made steel sheet piling. Factors of safety of 2 for tie force and 1 5 for net passive force are considered.

Properly designed and protected steel sheet piles can meet design lives of 75 or 100 years. Nucor skyline supplies a wide variety of sheet pile from leading manufacturers. We operate four mini mill roll forming operations that produce 30 different piling sections in six different configurations. For example say in a section of plans which has 500 feet 152 m of wall length and a sheet piling length of 48 feet 14 6 m you require a minimum design moment of 75 8 k in ft 28 kn m m.

The basic specification for steel sheet piling in the united states has been astm a 328 published by the american society of testing materials.