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Apr 26, 2012
Open Cell Wharf Structures—Applications from Coast to Coast
Publication: Ports '01: America's Ports: Gateway to the Global Economy
Abstract
This paper discusses the use of the Open Cell Bulkhead system at several port and harbor sites across the United States. The "Open Cell" is a cellular sheetpile structure with unconnected sheet pile tail walls that act as soil anchors. This system functions as a horizontally tied membrane, relying solely on soil-friction against flat sheet pile anchor walls to restrain an arched sheet pile face. Viewed in plan, the structure is a series of adjoining "U-shaped" structures. Each of these projects demonstrates the advantages of the system during construction. Completed projects have been built by local general contractors with no experience with the Open Cell and some with little or no marine experience. Construction cost, schedule and change order histories indicate that these structures are at least as easy to build as other bulkhead and wharf structures.
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© 2001 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Anchors
- Bulkheads
- Coastal protection structures
- Engineering fundamentals
- Equipment and machinery
- Foundations
- Geotechnical engineering
- Harbor facilities
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic structures
- Pile foundations
- Piles
- Ports and harbors
- Retaining structures
- Sheet piles
- Structural engineering
- Structural members
- Structural systems
- Structures (by type)
- Walls
- Water and water resources
- Waterfront structures
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Jeffrey F. Gilman
Vice President, Peratrovich, Nottingham & Drage, Inc.; 811 First Avenue, Suite 260, Seattle, Washington 98104
David M. Pierce
Principal, Peratrovich, Nottingham & Drage, Inc.; 811 First Avenue, Suite 260, Seattle, Washington 98104
Todd S. Nottingham
Vice Pres., Peratrovich, Nottingham & Drage, Inc.; 811 First Avenue, Suite 260, Seattle, Washington 98104
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