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Chapter 2<br />

Sheet pile walls<br />

2.1 Sections and interlocks<br />

Fig. 2.1 shows a steel sheet pile wall made from LARSSEN U-sections and a wall made from<br />

Z-sections with off-centre interlocks.<br />

Figure 2.1: Steel sheet pile walls made from U-sections (left) and Z-sections (right) plus details<br />

of their interlocks<br />

Straight-web sections (Fig. 2.2) have a high interlock strength for accommodating tensile forces.<br />

Applications include, for example, cellular cofferdams.<br />

Figure 2.2: Steel sheet pile wall made from straight-web sections plus detail of interlock<br />

The interlocks of a sheet pile join together the individual piles to form a complete wall. As<br />

the interlocks of U-sections lie on the neutral axis and hence coincide with the maximum shear<br />

stresses, the full moment of resistance may only be used in the case of welded or crimped interlocks.<br />

When using welded/crimped interlocks, the maximum permissible bending moment<br />

is two to three times that of a single sheet pile.<br />

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