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This document provides details about a proposed 14m deep and 10m wide underground metro railway excavation with braced walls and struts. It includes the soil profile, and asks questions to calculate safety factors, design wall depth, check for clay bursting, determine earth pressures and bending moments, and estimate ground displacement.

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Quiz 2

This document provides details about a proposed 14m deep and 10m wide underground metro railway excavation with braced walls and struts. It includes the soil profile, and asks questions to calculate safety factors, design wall depth, check for clay bursting, determine earth pressures and bending moments, and estimate ground displacement.

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1.

For the construction of underground Metro Railway, a 14 m deep and 10 m


wide opening with braced excavation system as shown in Fig. 1 is proposed in
cohesive soil strata. The excavation is proposed to be made with 500 mm thick
diaphragm walls with struts located at 2.5 m, 6.5 m and 10.5 m below ground
level.

Fig. 1

The subsoil condition is given below,

Depth Description Soil parameter

0–4m Brownish gray silty clay γ = 1.8 t/m3, cu = 4 t/m2


4 – 11 m Soft gray organic silty clay γ = 1.7 t/m3, cu = 2.5 t/m2
11 – 16 m Buish gray silty clay γ = 1.9 t/m3, cu = 6 t/m2
16 – 25 m Brown silty clay γ = 1.9 t/m3, cu = 8 t/m2
> 25 m Dense sand γ = 2.0 t/m3, N > 40

(Ground water table is 4 m below ground level)

(a) Calculate the factor of safety of the braced cut against bottom heave in a
stratified cohesive soil as detailed above.

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(b) Design the suitable depth of penetration for the diaphragm wall.

(c) Check and comment whether adequate factor of safety against clay bursting
is available or not. If not, what measures one can adopt to prevent clay
bursting?

(d) Draw the apparent earth pressure diagram on the wall and estimate the
maximum loads on each strut. Assume that struts are placed @ 3 m c/c
longitudinally.

(e) Determine the maximum bending moment on the diaphragm wall.

(f) Determine the maximum bending moment on the inbuilt wales/runner


beam.

(g) Estimate the maximum ground displacement and the extent of ground
displacement due to above braced excavation.

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