ANCHOR/PILE SCHEME STOPS WALL MOVEMENT

A scheme is described which successfully arrested the movement of an 8 m high, 110 year old, brick retaining wall at the approaches to a major railway terminal, the St. Pancras Station. The mainly horizontal movement (with a little rotation) was accelerating particularly at the center of a 60 m length which was bulging and developing vertical cracks over its full height. The method to arrest the movement (a quick method with minimum of disturbance of existing structure) consisted of constructing 82 milti-bell ground anchors of 37.5 and 50t safe working load to arrest the horizontal movement of the wall, and to balance the resulting imposed additional vertical loading by constructing 96 Pali Radice (Fondiele's patented root piles) to underpin the wall. The net effect would be to freeze the wall in its existing position.

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    Foundation Publications Limited

    7 Ongar Road
    Brentwood CM15 9AU, Essex,   England 
  • Publication Date: 1977-10

Media Info

  • Features: Figures;
  • Pagination: p. 32-34
  • Serial:
    • GROUND ENGINEERING
    • Volume: 10
    • Issue Number: 7
    • Publisher: EMAP CONSTRUCT LIMITED
    • ISSN: 0017-4653

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00172340
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Mar 29 1978 12:00AM