Location
New York, New York
Date
16 Apr 2004, 8:00am - 9:30am
Abstract
Protection of deep excavation by cast in situ concrete diaphragm walls for Shopping Center in Gdansk (Poland) is described. The structure was designed as five-storey-building with three additional underground floors and founded on diaphragm walls. The excavation was made by “half-floor” method with temporary supports of floor in the form of steel columns. Static calculations of excavation bracing were carried out by PLAXIS numerical code for both design stage (for two calculation schemes: anchored and supported by floor ring) as well as after its construction (back analysis). The calculations served for an assessment of predicted wall displacements, deformations of soil surface around the excavation and internal forces in subsequent stages of the excavation deepening and for different working schemes (supports) of the construction. During construction works vertical displacements of the soil surface around the excavation and surrounding buildings as well as horizontal displacements of diaphragm walls were monitored and compared with the results of corresponding calculations. Some exemplary distributions of calculated and measured values of the wall and soil surface deformations are presented. Subsoil unloading effects and the range of impact zones on the vicinity are also analyzed.
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
Horodecki, G. A.; Bolt, A. F.; and Dembicki, E., "Deep Excavation Braced by Diaphragm Wall in Gdańsk (Poland)" (2004). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 27.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/5icchge/session05/27
Deep Excavation Braced by Diaphragm Wall in Gdańsk (Poland)
New York, New York
Protection of deep excavation by cast in situ concrete diaphragm walls for Shopping Center in Gdansk (Poland) is described. The structure was designed as five-storey-building with three additional underground floors and founded on diaphragm walls. The excavation was made by “half-floor” method with temporary supports of floor in the form of steel columns. Static calculations of excavation bracing were carried out by PLAXIS numerical code for both design stage (for two calculation schemes: anchored and supported by floor ring) as well as after its construction (back analysis). The calculations served for an assessment of predicted wall displacements, deformations of soil surface around the excavation and internal forces in subsequent stages of the excavation deepening and for different working schemes (supports) of the construction. During construction works vertical displacements of the soil surface around the excavation and surrounding buildings as well as horizontal displacements of diaphragm walls were monitored and compared with the results of corresponding calculations. Some exemplary distributions of calculated and measured values of the wall and soil surface deformations are presented. Subsoil unloading effects and the range of impact zones on the vicinity are also analyzed.
