Design of Quay Walls Involving Advanced Numerical Modelling

Our quay wall design services provide tailored solutions for both anchored sheet pile walls and blockwork quay walls, ensuring stability, efficiency, and compliance with project requirements.

Anchored Sheet Pile Walls

Our design method includes advanced stress deformation analysis performed using the finite element method, delivering accurate and reliable results for complex engineering challenges. This analysis provides the safe embedment depth, the straining actions in the wall, and the tieback/anchor forces under different loading conditions.

The analysis outcome also includes the expected deformation of the wall under operational conditions, and an assessment of the global stability against deep-seated failure. As a result, the optimum wall embedment depth can be determined.

Blockwork Quay Walls

Our comprehensive design services for blockwork quay walls address all aspects of construction and operation, including:

• Bearing capacity, settlement, and global stability analysis: Ensuring structural reliability and long-term performance.
• Preloading design: This design aspect includes identifying the preloading magnitude, duration, and threshold movement rate for preloading removal. Stress deformation analysis is conducted for all stages of wall construction, preloading, and operation to ensure optimal preloading magnitude and duration, and satisfactory long-term performance.
• Field monitoring analysis: Interpreting preloading trial data and ensuring compliance of the threshold settlement rate with the project criteria.
• Numerical model calibration: The field measurements taken during the preloading trial are utilized to calibrate the developed numerical model. This calibration ensures that the correct operational parameters are adopted. Hence, the long-term performance of the wall can be reliably predicted in accordance with the project criteria.