I'll do my best to answer these questions. I was hoping someone with experience in this field could tell me 10' piles seem reasonable or they are too short given your application. I'm on a condo board with non-technical members who tend to believe the contractor. My gut feeling with what I've...
Everything black in the drawing is existing. The tie rods through the timber piles are existing. We are looking to replace a retaining system that is prone to failures. You'll find our current design interesting. A 7' chain link is strapped to the boardwalk beam closest the shore. It extends...
So would the retained height in this case be the distance from the top of the boardwalk to the rip rap, or from the top of the boardwalk to the average water level, or from the top of the boardwalk to the low water level. Would you need a whaler and tiebacks?
I am hearing totally different opinions for how deep sheet piling should be for a retaining wall along a channel. Wondering if anyone could help. First 15 feet of soil is loose to firm sand with gravel, then a 5 foot layer of peat, then 10 feet soft to medium clay. The pile wall will run along...
