Soldier Piles are steel H piles that are vertically driven or drilled into the earth at regular intervals prior to excavation. As excavation progresses in stages, horizontal lagging in the form of timber or precast concrete is added behind the flanges to create the Soldier Pile and Lagging Wall.
Soldier piles are used to create a strong foundation for heavy structures such as buildings, bridges and roads. The piles are commonly made of steel that's driven into the ground to help distribute the weight of the structure from the loose topsoil down to the rock below.
A soldier pile wall typically uses H-pile and wood or steel sheeting between the pile. A pipe pile wall uses hollow shell pile to drive into the ground and has interlocking metal sheeting between the pile. Typically, the shell pile will be filled partially or completely with concrete, but not always.
Soldier Pile and Lagging Design Requirements. Lagging for soldier pile walls, with and without permanent ground anchors, shall be designed as either temporary or permanent, based on the conditions described below.
Soil nail walls are installed more quickly and cost effectively than other shoring systems. Soldier pile walls or sheet pile walls require large equipment to drill in place or drive the piles or sheets. Soil nails avoid the time and cost of installing these vertical elements.
Piles are typically installed at 4 to 8 feet centers and extend at least 8 to 10 feet below final excavation grade to provide passive toe resistance. As site excavation proceeds in lifts, typically 5 feet in depth, lagging comprised of either wood or shotcrete is placed between the piles.
It is the king pile that makes up the vast bulk of the wall, with sheets used to ensure that the wall is one continuous structure. The shape of the steel combi wall is a great benefit for installation: it is approximately 3:1 sheet to beam, meaning that only a quarter of the wall has to be driven.
The stability of a soldier pile retaining wall depends upon the active earth pressure being resisted by passive pressure on the embedded section of the pile. Pile spacing is typically 6 – 10 feet on center.
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The basic principle for the design of the Retaining Wall is that the reinforced concrete stem and footing flexure and shear design strength must e at least equal to the factored moment and shears determined from the analysis. The wall stem is designed as a cantilever, fixed at the footing.
The arching process induces a redistribution of soil pressure away from the center of the lagging toward the much stiffer soldier pile support. Because of this, the design load on the lagging may be taken as 0.6 times the theoretical or calculated pressure based on a simple span.
Bored piles are piles where the removal of spoil forms a hole for a reinforced concrete pile which is poured in situ. The spoil is replaced by the pile, hence 'replacement' piles as opposed to displacement piles where soil is forced away by driving or screwing the pile.
The versatility of Southern Yellow Pine makes it ideal for many applications of Timber Lagging in highway, industrial and commercial applications being the strongest domestic softwood although the reliable Douglas Fir timber or the old standby Mixed Oak timbers are also available.
Soldier pile retaining walls may be constructed with driven piles (steel, timber or concrete) or they may be placed in drilled holes and backfilled with concrete, slurry, sand, pea-gravel or similar material. A soldier pile could also be a cast in place reinforced concrete pile.
Caisson walls are considered a watertight and structural earth retention solution. Caisson walls consist of drilling down to specified depth and filling the shafts with low strength concrete. Holes are drilled on a schedule to allow curing overnight and to interlock each shaft with the others.
What Is an MSE Wall? A Mechanically Stabilized Earth wall is a retaining structure showcasing several layers of backfill and soil reinforcement elements that are connected to a wall facing. Wall facings are usually thin and work to stop the erosion of structural backfill.
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Cantilever soldier pile walls are commonly used when excavation depths are limited to 5m or less (15ft). In most cases, cantilever depths are kept to under 3.5m (10ft) because controlling wall displacements requires an increasingly stiffer steel section.
The primary difference between soldier piles and other retaining systems like sheet piles is that soldier piles are spaced between 5 and 10 feet apart and intended to be temporary. They're filled with lagging, usually made of shotcrete, metal plates, or wood.
Soldier Pile Installation
The piles may be driven, vibrated, or drilled into place. Piles are typically driven or vibrated into the ground where soil profiles do not prevent driving and were vibrations can be tolerated by adjacent structures.
A pony wall is a short wall. In different circumstances, it may refer to: a half wall that only extends partway from floor to ceiling, without supporting anything. a stem wall, a concrete wall that extends from the foundation slab to the cripple wall or floor joists.
A Chinese wall is an ethical barrier that is erected within an organisation to avoid conflicts of interest. It is required where information held by one part of an organisation needs to be withheld from another division of the organisation.
In English, the verb in the sense of "to heap (up)" is recorded from c. 1400. Middle English also had a noun pile meaning "castle, tower, stronghold (late 14c.), which persisted in a sense of "large building." OED regards this as a separate word, of doubtful origin, but other sources treat them as the same.