New design methods for sheet pile cellular structures

Traditional methods commonly used to design sheet pile cellular cofferdams and bulkheads were developed in the 1940's and 1950's and are based on semi-empirical approaches. The traditional methods are limited because they do not explicitly incorporate soil-structure interactions, they do n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wissmann, Kord J.
Other Authors: Civil Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38805
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07132007-143154/