This tutorial is taken from [2].
An experiment is done with a sheet pile near an excavation.
The following is done:
- the sheet pile is completely inserted.
- two excavations are done.
- at point A the sheet pile is fixed in x-direction (in the experiment
a horizontal strut is fixed to point A).
- three more excavations are carried out
- the vertical load at the top surface is applied.
- point A of the sheet pile is moved to the left, to find when the soil
at the right of the sheet-pile will become unstable.
Figure 13:
Excavation with sheet pile
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The dimension are given in figure 13.
At the left side of the sheet pile you see the five excavations levels.
All excavations remain above the phreatic water level, which you can see at 
.
Especially notice point A at which the sheet pile after the second excavation is supported,
and later is moved to the left.
Subsections
- Input file
- Initialization part
- Data part, tolerance on geometries
- Data part, beam geometries
- Data part, edge geometries
- Data part, excavation geometries
- Data part, material properties
- Data part, boundary conditions
- Data part, distributed force load on top
- Data part, gravity
- Data part, groundwater properties
- Data part, post processing and printing
- Data part, generate mesh with Tochnog
- Data part, set gravity stresses
- Data part, apply excavation time-steps
- Data part, apply load time-steps
- Data part, apply velocity point A time-steps
- Data part, print pressure on beam
- Run calculation
- Output results
TochnogProfessional
