Location
New York, New York
Date
16 Apr 2004, 8:00am - 9:30am
Abstract
A watertight prestressed anchored retaining wall was used in an excavation in Marmaris, a town located on the Southwest coast of Turkey due to presence of high water level and soft soil conditions. Following a detailed geotechnical investigation an analysis of the retaining system was performed by Plaxis Finite Element Program. The analysis consisted of stage construction simulating the real case. The behaviour of the watertight pile wall was monitored by means of inclinometric measurements. The paper describes the overall stability problems disclosed by Plaxis finite element and Slope-W slope stability programs and their remediation and the problems encountered during construction and inclinometric measurements. The lateral displacements of the retaining wall obtained in the analyses are compared with the inclinometric measurements taken during the excavation program.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2004 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Nalçakan, Mustafa S.; Tekin, Maral; Tönük, Gökçe; and Ergun, Ufuk, "Behaviour of a Watertight Anchored Retaining Wall in Soft Soil Conditions" (2004). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 18.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/5icchge/session05/18
Behaviour of a Watertight Anchored Retaining Wall in Soft Soil Conditions
New York, New York
A watertight prestressed anchored retaining wall was used in an excavation in Marmaris, a town located on the Southwest coast of Turkey due to presence of high water level and soft soil conditions. Following a detailed geotechnical investigation an analysis of the retaining system was performed by Plaxis Finite Element Program. The analysis consisted of stage construction simulating the real case. The behaviour of the watertight pile wall was monitored by means of inclinometric measurements. The paper describes the overall stability problems disclosed by Plaxis finite element and Slope-W slope stability programs and their remediation and the problems encountered during construction and inclinometric measurements. The lateral displacements of the retaining wall obtained in the analyses are compared with the inclinometric measurements taken during the excavation program.
