Soldier piles in rock

[rubedog]

I am looking on how to design soldier piles in rock. I look at AASHTO 5.6.2 (1999) figure 5.6.2A, but the units do not match when compared with the active pressure, help

 

[ishvaaag]

Being rock if disgregate only amounts to just different properties of the cohesionless soil. Then you can use any reference on soldier-piles' or tie-aback walls design.

When the backfill has horizontal surface, there are freely downloadable worksheets for Mathcad Professional for both the tied and non tied wall that may help you.

Yestgerday I downloaded a french reference on-line and have not looked at yet. Just in case

Flexibilité et dimensionnement
des écrans de soutènement ancrés

 

[ishvaaag]

...the authors of the french study are
Luc DELATTRE*
ITPE
Chef de la section Comportement des sols et des ouvrages géotechniques
Division Mécanique des sols et des roches et géologie de l’ingénieur
Henri JOSSEAUME**
Division Mécanique des sols et des roches et géologie de l’ingénieur
Laurent MESPOULHE***
Assistant technique des TPE
Section Comportement des sols et des ouvrages géotechniques
Division Mécanique des sols et des roches et géologie de l’ingénieur
Thierry DELMER****
ITPE
Stagiaire
Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées


Look the .pdf document in Google and see if there is something of interest for you.