ELEMENT WALLS

An element wall was built in the construction of a 10-storey apartment building in W. Germany. The project was on a slope and the cutting involved a length of 60 m with the height varying between 16 and 21 m. The top layers comprised an artificial filling and valley rubble to a thickness of a few meters underlain by karstic alpine keuper. Parallel to the scheme, and uphill at a distance of 3-5 m, ran a road on which the traffic had to be kept flowing; also, an important telephone cable lay buried under the road. Studies showed that the stability was ensured when the natural slope was less than 45 deg. It was decided to build a vertical wall with anchored soldier beams and sheeting. Similar walls have been built in Alpine areas in Switzerland and Nurnberg.

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• Authors:
  • Koreck, H W
• Publication Date: 1976-5

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 6
• Serial:
  • GROUND ENGINEERING
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: EMAP CONSTRUCT LIMITED
  • ISSN: 0017-4653

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Beams; Chemical elements; Mountains; Retaining walls; Sheathing; Slope stability; Walls
• Old TRIS Terms: Anchor beams
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00141085
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 6 1976 12:00AM