Article | REF: C244 V2

Retaining walls and screens

Authors: Thomas SIMONNOT, Yann JUILLIÉ

Publication date: May 10, 2015

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6. Retaining screens

6.1 Different screen types

The following types of retaining screen are available:

  • sheet pile curtains (figure 37 ): generally made up of metal sheet piles, nested one inside the other and driven into the foundation soil, to form a vertical screen, usually rectilinear, used to support a soil mass;

  • Berlin, Paris, Lutetian, Moscow composite walls (figure 38 ): discontinuous shield made up of regularly spaced deep foundation elements (piles, micropiles, bars) (vertical rigid structure) and armouring elements supporting the soil mass, resting on the vertical rigid...

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