Geo-Congress 2020
The Use of Steel Sheet Pile as Permanent Building Foundation Walls: Lessons Learned over 15 Years of Design in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Publication: Geo-Congress 2020: University of Minnesota 68th Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference (GSP 321)
ABSTRACT
Engineering Partners International LLC (Engineering Partners) has designed over 30 projects where steel sheet pile walls have been used as permanent perimeter foundations to support buildings with one to three levels of below grade parking and up to 16 above grade floor levels. Similar to conventional foundation walls, the sheet pile walls provide lateral support for soil and surcharge loads, and vertical support for below grade parking slabs and perimeter walls and columns of the superstructure. The sheet pile foundations have been designed to support uniform wall loads up to 12 kips per linear foot and point loads up to 380 kips. When Engineering Partners completed their first sheet pile foundation design in 2005, the use of sheet pile foundations together with the construction sequencing described in this paper was among the first of its kind in the United States. This paper summarizes projects completed in the 15 years since, including results of several high strain dynamic tests completed on sheet pile using a pile driving analyzer (PDA). The majority of these projects have been completed in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Geo-Congress 2020: University of Minnesota 68th Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference (GSP 321)
Pages: 68 - 77
Editors: Joseph F. Labuz, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Brent A. Theroux, Barr Engineering Co., James P. Hambleton, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Roman Makhnenko, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Aaron S. Budge, Ph.D., Minnesota State University, Mankato
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8284-1
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© 2020 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Feb 21, 2020
Published in print: Feb 21, 2020
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Building design
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Design (by type)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Foundation design
- Foundations
- Geotechnical engineering
- Load factors
- Pile foundations
- Piles
- Project management
- Sheet piles
- Steel piles
- Structural design
- Structural engineering
- Structural members
- Structural systems
- Walls
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