3. 1. Overall Stability
Risk occurs in –
Sloping ground
Riverfront cofferdam
Where the differential height is greater
Where cohesive soils extend to considerable depths on sloping sites
Material Stresses
4. 2. Bottom Failure by Piping and Basal Heave
Checking necessary for-
Risk of hydraulic failure by piping: for narrow cofferdams
Risk of basal failure: in cofferdams in soft clay
Material Stresses
5. 3. Aggressive Site Conditions
a) Effect of Wave Forces on the Face of the Structure
Waves in deep water
Where waves are reflected
Where waves break on the structure
Waves caused by ship movements
Material Stresses
6. b) Risk of Over-topping of the Cofferdam Sheeting
To prevent-
The cofferdam should be tied
Adequate sluices with safe locations for operating locations
Material Stresses
7. c) Scour Protection
Providing cutwaters: upstream and downstream ends of a cofferdam
maybe shaped to reduce scour
Rock or concrete beds: to avoid erosion of the river or sea bed
Grout mattresses weighted by rockfill: for river cofferdams
Material Stresses
8. d) Protection from Vessel Impact
Fendering or strongpoints built into the cofferdam sheeting
Material Stresses
10. Circular Cofferdams
General Layout of the Cofferdam
What can be accommodated in circular
cofferdams cost-effectively?
Square shaped plan structures
Circular plan shape storage wells
11. Rectilinear Cofferdams
General Layout of the Cofferdam
The most economical arrangement uses
Maximum straight runs of piling
Minimum of return angles
13. Principle Reasons for Failure
Poor
workmanship
Inadequate
strut section
Inadequate
embedment
Allowance of
surcharge
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14. Economical use of anchors
Depends on the strength of the subsoil
Dense sands and gravels would be preferred
Opportunity to use anchors
Ownership of land
Permission to found anchors
Ground Anchors
15. Acting earth pressures on anchor installation
Soil strengths
Wall and soil stiffness
Anchor spacing
Anchor yield
Prestress locked into the anchors
Ground Anchors
16. Five anchor types
Type A
Type B
Type C
Type D
Type E
Ground Anchors
17. Four items for design of anchors
Overall stability
Depth of embedment
Fixed anchor dimensions
Group effects
Ground Anchors
19. Sheet Piling
Used for outer walls of marine or land cofferdam
Selection of section:
• Criteria- i) Flexural strength
ii) Resistance to driving stress
• Sufficiency of pile sections
Two types of pile driver:
1. Drives piles in panels of six to eight piles
2. Drives one pile at a time
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23. Size of Walling (cont.)
Varies with diameter of cofferdams
‘d’ should not be less than ‘D/35’
Waling load = 1.5EI / 10^5 R^3
Permissible compressive stress < 5.2 N/mm^2
Check tension on walling beam
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24. Passive Anchors
Design Principal
Net available passive pressure= passive pressure-active pressure
Special Considerations
i) Surcharge ii) Friction
Materials
i) Mild steel - 111N/mm2
ii) High yield steel -140 N/mm2
26. Struts
A strut is a component designed to resist
longitudinal compression.
Importance
The most likely collapse
mechanism of a braced
cofferdam is the buckling of
it’s strutting.
27. Struts cont.
Collapse of waling or sheeting is unlikely
Reasons of Failure:
Passive failure below formation level
Extreme loading
Poor workmanship
28. Positioning the strut
Struts should be supported by
welding steel location angles to
end plate prior to bolting.
Struts are square to the wallings
in plan to avoid eccentric loading.
As precaution check 10% of strut
width or depth in each direction.
29. Spacing
The vertical spacing of the struts depend on both the strut capacity and the
flexural strength of the walling.
30. Spacing (cont.)
The minimum frame spacing must be sufficient to allow mechanical
excavation plant to pass under the frame prior to placing the next lowest
frame.
31. Final stages of construction
The placing of the lowest frame in a multi-frame cofferdam is the period
of greatest risk to the bracing.
The next highest frame will be highly loaded and the factor of safety
against passive failure will be at it’s lowest.
The bending stress and deformation of the walling will be at their highest
values.
All bracing components should be prefabricated to avoid cofferdam
being unpropped at the lowest level for lengthy period.
32. Walling details
lifting and bracing steel
joining sections of cages
lateral spacing between reinforcement cages of adjacent panels
details of starter steel for floor slabs
detailing for ground anchors
inclusion of reinforcement for waling
min spacing and cover
water bar in vertical panel joints
34. Sheet Pile Walls Across Dock Entrance
Several means-
Cellular cofferdam for new construction
Raking struts to the dock floor to exclude water from
the existing dock
Driving sheet piles to a circular arc in plan for the
existing entrance
35. Cost of temporary cofferdams
Design curves
• Section modulus of pilling
• No of bracing
• Bending moments included in cantilever
• Maximum penetration depth
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36. DOUBLE WALL COFFERDAM
Gravity structure
Consists of twin parallel
lines of sheeters
Driven below dredge line
Tied together by steel tie
Filled with material
Usual height to width
ratio 0.8
Berm inside for drainage
and stability
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38. Modes of Failure Considered in Design of Double
Wall Cofferdam
Tie rod design and water pressure:
Sheet piles should be designed using at rest pressure of
filling
Hydraulic filling is used to place sand back fills between the
sheeters
Walls should be designed for most severe assumption of
water pressure-water level within the filling may rise at top
level of sheeters.
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39. Sliding:
Resistance to sliding provided by
Passive resistance of soil
Shear strength of sheeters
Frictional resistance of filler
material
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40. Overall stability
a stability analysis using force polygon
establishing the efficiency of fill material against failure by
horizontal movement at the top
Ensuring a factor of safety of 1.5
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41. Alternative method:
A minimum factor of safety( ratio of overturning and
resisting moment) 1.5
Otherwise trial required with
increased width
improved filling material
deeper driving of sheeters
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42. Measures to protect scouring on outside
face
Placing rock or precast concrete blocks against outer
face
Laying grouter mattresses on the river bed
Lateral deformation at the head of cofferdam is
eliminated by using strongpoints
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