Parametric study of retaining wall using plaxis

Retaining wall is a type of generic engineering structure that is employed to restrain lateral forces exerted by a vertical-faced or near-vertical-faced mass of earth. The earth behind the wall may be either the natural embankment or the backfill material placed adjacent to the retaining wall. Retai...

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Main Author: Maqueline Cyndi, Anak Nap
Format: Final Year Project Report / IMRAD
Language:English
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Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2010
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description Retaining wall is a type of generic engineering structure that is employed to restrain lateral forces exerted by a vertical-faced or near-vertical-faced mass of earth. The earth behind the wall may be either the natural embankment or the backfill material placed adjacent to the retaining wall. Retaining walls must be design carefully to withstand lateral pressure of the earth, which tends to cause a failure of the structure. A suitable type of retaining wall to be used depends on the site or soil condition, reciprocal action between soil mass and the retaining wall, magnitude, and the distribution of the lateral earth pressure. In this study, the analysis and the parametric study of a sheet pile wall is done by using finite element software, PLAXIS V8. A finite element model has been developed to analyze the behaviour of sheet pile wall with different value of each parameter such as soil cohesion, angle of internal friction, length of the sheet pile wall, depth of excavation and surcharge load. The different value of the parameter may affect the bending moment and the displacement of the sheet pile wall which are presented and discussed in this study.
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spelling unimas-77852023-08-29T08:30:50Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7785/ Parametric study of retaining wall using plaxis Maqueline Cyndi, Anak Nap QC Physics TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Retaining wall is a type of generic engineering structure that is employed to restrain lateral forces exerted by a vertical-faced or near-vertical-faced mass of earth. The earth behind the wall may be either the natural embankment or the backfill material placed adjacent to the retaining wall. Retaining walls must be design carefully to withstand lateral pressure of the earth, which tends to cause a failure of the structure. A suitable type of retaining wall to be used depends on the site or soil condition, reciprocal action between soil mass and the retaining wall, magnitude, and the distribution of the lateral earth pressure. In this study, the analysis and the parametric study of a sheet pile wall is done by using finite element software, PLAXIS V8. A finite element model has been developed to analyze the behaviour of sheet pile wall with different value of each parameter such as soil cohesion, angle of internal friction, length of the sheet pile wall, depth of excavation and surcharge load. The different value of the parameter may affect the bending moment and the displacement of the sheet pile wall which are presented and discussed in this study. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2010 Final Year Project Report / IMRAD NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7785/1/Parametric%20study%20of%20retaining%20wall%20using%20plaxis%20%2824pgs%29.pdf text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7785/8/Parametric%20study%20of%20retaining%20wall%20using%20plaxis%20%28full%20text%29.pdf Maqueline Cyndi, Anak Nap (2010) Parametric study of retaining wall using plaxis. [Final Year Project Report / IMRAD] (Unpublished)
spellingShingle QC Physics
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Maqueline Cyndi, Anak Nap
Parametric study of retaining wall using plaxis
title Parametric study of retaining wall using plaxis
title_full Parametric study of retaining wall using plaxis
title_fullStr Parametric study of retaining wall using plaxis
title_full_unstemmed Parametric study of retaining wall using plaxis
title_short Parametric study of retaining wall using plaxis
title_sort parametric study of retaining wall using plaxis
topic QC Physics
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7785/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7785/1/Parametric%20study%20of%20retaining%20wall%20using%20plaxis%20%2824pgs%29.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7785/8/Parametric%20study%20of%20retaining%20wall%20using%20plaxis%20%28full%20text%29.pdf