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What is AZ section?
Z-type sheet piles are the preferred choice for permanent applications. Among the essential characteristics of Z-shaped sheet piles are the continuous form of the web and the specific location of the interlock symmetrically on both sides of the neutral axis.
What are different sections used for sheet pile?
Different types of timber sheet piles include simple planks, Wakefield timber sheet piles (when many planks are nailed or glued together to form a single timber sheet pile section), tongue and groove timber sheet piles, or splined timber sheets. Timber sheet piles are seldomly used in modern heavy civil construction.
What is AZ steel?
About Us. AZ Metals is a family owned and operated, full-service metal supply company providing wholesale and retail prime metals. All orders are cut to the size with no minimums. We also offer stainless steel and metal fabrication services.
What is a sheet pile structure?
Sheet piles are sections of sheet materials with interlocking edges that are driven into the ground to provide earth retention and excavation support. Sheet piles are most commonly made of steel, but can also be formed of timber or reinforced concrete.
What is sheet pile wall?
Sheet pile walls are retaining walls constructed to retain earth, water or any other filling materials. These walls are thinner in section compared to masonry walls. Sheet pile walls are generally used for following: 1. Water front structures, i.e. in building wharfs, quays and piers.
How many types of sheet piles are there?
Commonly used sheet piles can be broadly divided into the following three categories, Straight-web type. Shallow or deep arched-web type. Z web type.
How thick is sheet piling?
minimum thickness of 8 mm for GU 12N, to enhance durability; single pile width of 600 mm; ArcelorMittal Larssen interlock; steel grades from S 240 GP to S 430 GP.
How is sheet pile calculated?
The design length of sheet pile is L=h+D*FS, FS=1.2 to 1.4. Calculate y = Ha/ p1. Calculate Mmax=Ha[(h-d)/3+y]- p1*y2/2. Calculate required section modulus S= Mmax/Fb.
What is an HP pile?
The HP steel bearing piles are special H beams with the same thickness for flange and web. Bearing piles of this type are used all over the world for the deep foundations of various structures: housings, industrial constructions, bridges…
What is Anchorage pile?
Anchor piles are piles used to resist uplift or inclined tensile. forces in the surrounding ground. They are used as: (1) Reaction piles for pile testing. (2) Piles to resist uplift forces from flotation.
Are sheet piles load bearing?
Sheet piles and box piles Steel sheet pile section walls are increasingly used for bearing pile applications and in combined loading situations. Applications for permanent sheet pile walls in bearing are used in basements, underground carparks and bridge abutments.
What is FSP sheet pile?
Sheet piles are one of the most common types of earth retention structures. The existing seabed was between approximately -2.0 EL to +1.0 EL in the vicinity of the proposed wall. FSP sheet pile has reclaimed the area to approximately +3.0 EL. Fill material is dense to very dense sandy gravel with cobbles and boulders.
What is the history of AZ sheet piles?
ArcelorMittal rolled the first AZ sheet piles beginning of the 1990’s. It was at that time an awesome achievement to roll 600 mm wide Z-type sheet piles with a Larssen type interlock. The AZ range was completed with the manufacturing in 1998 of the AZ 48, the heaviest Z-section in the world (outperformed only in 2016 by a new AZ section).
Do I need a common interlock for AZ sheet piles?
AZ sheet piles are usually supplied and driven as double piles (some exceptions apply). Although statically not required, the common interlock can be crimped (standard pattern), thus improving the straightness of the wall and reducing noise when driving with a vibratory hammer.
What are the advantages of AZ sheet piles?
increased inertia and thus reduced deflection allowing the choice of high yield strength steels for the most economical solution, large width resulting in high installation performance and enhanced watertightness. ArcelorMittal rolled the first AZ sheet piles beginning of the 1990’s.
How wide is the AZ 38-700 pile?
Note that these piles are 700 mm wide. The first section was the AZ 38-700, a monumental success. We were indeed the first manufacturer in the world able to roll such wide sections on a regular basis.