Conference proceeding
Case History of a Full Scale Axial Load Test of Sheet Piles
GEOTECHNICAL FRONTIERS 2017: FOUNDATIONS, (279), pp 355-365
01 Jan 2017
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Abstract
Short span bridges in the U.S. that are located near rivers and streams typically use sheet piles to defend the abutment against erosion and scour. In such bridges, the abutment axial load demands are usually carried by driven piles installed behind the scour protection sheet piles. An alternative bridge abutment design approach, successfully used for decades in Europe and in some projects in the U.S., involves installing sheet piles for the double function of scour protection and axial load bearing. This design paradigm shift has the potential to significantly reduce construction cost. However, widespread implementation and acceptance of this design approach requires full-scale axial load tests on instrumented sheet piles. This paper presents an axial load test program carried out at a test site in North Carolina that shows that the axial stiffness and load capacity of the sheet pile was comparable to the response recorded in the comparison H-pile when normalized for differences in the tip and surface areas.
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- Title
- Case History of a Full Scale Axial Load Test of Sheet Piles
- Creators
- Matthew B. Sylvain - Univ North Carolina Charlotte, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, 9201 Univ City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223 USAMiguel A. Pando - Univ North Carolina Charlotte, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, 9201 Univ City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223 USAMatthew J. Whelan - Univ North Carolina Charlotte, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, 9201 Univ City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223 USACorey D. Rice - Univ North Carolina Charlotte, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, 9201 Univ City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223 USAVincent O. Ogunro - Univ North Carolina Charlotte, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, 9201 Univ City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223 USAYoungjin Park - Univ North Carolina Charlotte, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, 9201 Univ City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223 USAThomas Koch - North Carolina Dept Transportat, Struct Management Unit, 1100 New Bern Ave, Raleigh, NC 27601 USA
- Contributors
- T L Brandon (Editor)R J Valentine (Editor)
- Publication Details
- GEOTECHNICAL FRONTIERS 2017: FOUNDATIONS, (279), pp 355-365
- Series
- Geotechnical Special Publication
- Publisher
- Amer Soc Civil Engineers
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- Skyline Steel GRL Inc. SME, Inc.
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000406404300037
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85018744424
- Other Identifier
- 991020575102604721
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