Tie Back Systems For Sheet Pile Walls

Earth retention is simply a method to shore or stabilize soil rock that has been removed to form an excavation cut or slope.

Tie back systems for sheet pile walls.

Permanent or large retaining walls are often tied back to an anchor wall installed at a certain distance behind the wall. Tiebacks are drilled into the ground with a small diameter shaft. These can be seamlessly integrated into an esc sheet pile or combination wall or other types of retaining wall. Esc can offer the client a full design specification according conforming to the project requirements.

Most sheet pile retaining walls need a supplementary support at the top in addition to the embedment in the soil. Designers must provide the hole diameter required in the structural steel to allow for proper sizing of the clevis pin. A tieback is a structural element installed in soil or rock to transfer applied tensile load into the ground. Different types of augers are used to drill the tieback holes.

With one end of the tieback secured to the wall the other end is anchored to a stable structure such as a concrete deadman which has been driven into the ground or anchored into earth with. Temporary or permanent structural retaining walls use soldier piles with wood lagging sheet piles or structural diaphragm walls to resist lateral earth pressures from retained soil. Corrosion protection options are also available. Pin diameters are available from 3 4 through 4 1 4 diameter.

A tieback is made by first drilling a hole with an auger and then placing a bar tendon in the hole concrete is then poured in the hole and the connection with wall is made figure 3. They can be horizontal but are typically installed at an angle of 15 to 45 degrees. Typically in the form of a horizontal wire or rod or a helical anchor a tieback is commonly used along with other retaining systems to provide additional stability to cantilevered retaining walls. Chance helical tieback anchors are pre manufactured steel anchor elements consisting of a central steel shaft and one or more helical shaped bearing.

Tiebacks may be used in conjunction with a variety of retaining systems sheet piles soldier piles secant and tangent walls to provide additional lateral resistance beyond that achievable by a cantilevered wall. Chance earth retention systems. Esc offers the client a wide range of sizes and steel grades for tie rod system assemblies.