State of the Practice in the Design of Tall, Stiff, and Flexible Tieback Retaining Walls

Tieback walls are often used for temporary support of excavations in cases where it becomes necessary to limit the area of the excavation in order to protect highways, railroads, structures, and other important man-made features that are located immediately adjacent to the excavation. In some instances the tieback wall system will remain as a permanent structure. Permanent tieback wall systems are used as guide walls and approach walls on navigation projects, and as retaining walls on highway and railroad protection and relocation projects. The structural design of tieback wall systems involves
• Selection of appropriate design and performance standards.
• Determination of the loadings and loading combinations to be used for design.
• Design of wall structural features such as tiebacks, soldier beams, wales, lagging, and facing systems.
• Detailing of all structural features to meet safety requirements and constructibility requirements.
• Selection of appropriate contract specifications to ensure that the completed structure meets all strength and serviceability requirements and provides corrosion protection suitable for the intended service life of the wall.
The state of the practice with respect to the design and evaluation of tieback wall systems is covered by this report. It is important to recognize that the subject matter covered herein is presented only as background information as to the state of the practice and as such is not in any way intended to represent Corps design guidance. No endorsement of the procedures described herein is implied or intended. The state of the practice will be illustrated with respect to the design and evaluation of five tieback wall systems. The systems selected (listed on following page) are described in detail in Chapter 2.
• Vertical sheet-pile system with wales and post-tensioned tieback anchors.
• Soldier beam system with wood or reinforced concrete lagging and posttensioned tieback anchors. For the wood-lagging system, a permanent concrete facing system is required.
• Secant cylinder pile system with post-tensioned tieback anchors.
• Continuous reinforced concrete slurry wall system with post-tensioned tieback anchors.
• Discrete concrete slurry wall system (soldier beams with concrete lagging) with post-tensioned tieback anchors

Drainage of Highway Pavements

This report provides guidelines and design procedures for the drainage of highway pavements. The guidelines should be of interest to roadway and hydraulic design engineers. Safety specialists concerned with grate inlets and pavement spread may also find this manula useful. There is also an archived version of the publication that provides access to the document sections through a series of links within the PDF document.

Handbook of Civil Engineering Calculations (2ed) [Mathcad-enabled]

MANUAL FOR ENGINEERED WOOD CONSTRUCTION

This supplement contains adjustment factors, dimensions, factored resistance, reference strengths and other properties required to design structural glued laminated timber in the LRFD format. In this format, the term “resistance” is used to refer to member capacities (i.e., moment resistance, compression resistance, etc.). This is distinct from the term “strength” which refers to limit state material properties — conceptually a “factored allowable stress.” The member resistance values tabulated in this supplement are to be used in conjunction with the design methodologies provided in AF&PA/ASCE 16-95, Standard for Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) for Engineered Wood Construction.
The reference strengths were derived according to the principles of ASTM D5457-93, Standard Specification for Computing the Reference Resistance of Wood-based Materials and Structural Connections for Load and Resistance Factor Design. The tabulated reference strength values are to be used within the reference end-use conditions defined therein. When the end-use conditions fall outside the range of the reference conditions, the reference values shall be adjusted by the product of applicable adjustment factors as defined in AF&PA/ASCE 16-95 and also provided in this supplement. For unusual end-use conditions, the designer should consult additional literature for possible further adjustments.

ANSI/AF&PA SDPWS-2008 Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic with Commentary

Soil and Water Contamination: From Molecular to Catchment Scale

This textbook provides an overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contamination, in such a way that the reader can both understand and predict contaminant patterns in soil, groundwater, and surface water. In contract to most existing texts, soil and water pollution are treated as integrated environmental matter from a geographical/spatial perspective at point, local, regional, and catchment scales. The spatial approach links up with recent developments and trends in environmental legislation and other integrated catchment management initiatives.

It consists of four coherent parts: 1. Introduction to soil and water contamination; 2. Source, role, and behavior of substances in soil and water; 3. Transport and fate processes of substances in soil and water; and 4. Patterns of substances in soil and water.

Intended for undergraduate and graduate students in Earth and Environmental Sciences, who understand the fundamentals of chemistry, hydrology and soil science; may also serve as a useful reference for professionals.