Study on Active Earth Pressure of Sheet Pile Model Test on Foundation Pit Engineering

Abstract:

In recent years, building density in the city is increasing as the promoting of urban modernization. Deep foundation pit excavation and bracing is a topic in geotechnical engineering, including strength and stabilization of soil mechanics, and transmutation and sedimentation of deep foundation, and common effect between soil and shoring structure. The paper based on the design and fabrication of indoor model test device. This paper respectively explored the destroy mechanism of cantilever and anchored sheet pile support structure on the soil pressure under the different loads, and comprehensively carried through cantilever and anchored sheet pile support test under four-grades excavation depth and four-grades load combination, and specially researched the transformation of soil pressure. At the same time, the piles spacing changed among 3cm, 4cm and 5cm. Theoretical results showed that the active earth pressure increased with the increase of load and excavation depth. Model test results showed that the earth pressure behind the piles increased with the increase of excavation depth and the load. The biggest earth pressure was 19.38kPa when loading 40kPa. The changing curves of soil pressure were similar when piles spacing was 3cm and 4cm. Earth pressure after the piles was negative when piles spacing exceeded 4cm, which illustrated that active earth pressure had changed into passive soil pressure.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1049-1050)
• Pages: 209-212
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1049-1050.209
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Xiong Xia*, Yi Bo Wang, Han Dong Xu, Sai Ying Xi, Yi Huang
• Keywords: Active Earth Pressure, Foundation Pit Engineering, Model Test, Sheet Pile

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