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In two days I am installing two 750mm dia CFA piles. One pile will go 21m and the other will go 26m.
A week after these piles are installed we will be using a 16T lead drop hammer and carry out PDA/Capwap analysis. The piles are not contract piles and we will...
I use wallap and plaxis essentially all day at work. I often compare the two for shoring wall designs. Typically I find the two are in general agreement ie similar bending, shear, deflections. In my experience plaxis shows higher strut loads - maybe 10-15% more.
I have just run a model and the...
Hi everyone,
At the company I work for (design and construct shoring wall contractor) it is common to implement a corner brace for , say, a sheet pile wall.
Analyzing the system in 2d is simple: prop forces, embedment, wall forces etc. However I cannot find any guidance on how to resolve the...
I often have to design the piles in say a 4 pile cap. The Cap is subject to a lateral load, a bending moment and compression load. Pile are conventional bored pier/CFA pile.
Due to the moment applied to the cap and the compression force we end up with some piles in compression and some piles in...
Hi there. I'm an engineer for a piling company, we do sheet piling, CFA piles, ground anchoring. We do works for both foundation piles and shoring. We bought a soil mixing setup years and years ago and did one job with it, since then the people within our company who kind of knew how to...
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I am teaching myself plaxis 8 and have started going through the tutorials.
The first tutorial is 'settlement of a circular footing on sand'. The description is that it is a 2.0mtr dia footing.
When it comes to entering the material properties of the footing the tutorial guide says...
