Kevin Tse
Agenda
• What is shoring?
• What is involved in design of shoring?
• What does Civiltech Shoring offer?
• About Civiltech’s “Modules”
• Generating Automatic Soil and Water Pressures
• Generating Automatic Surcharge Pressures
• Shoring Options
• Outputs and diagrams
What is Shoring?
1.3
Factor of Safety = 0.3
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Design of Shoring?
There are many forces pushing the shoring
SURCHARGE to failure…
ACTIVE
EARTH
But other forces help to keep the shoring
stable.
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PASSIVE EARTH
WATER
About Civiltech Shoring
• Set of “Modules”, which are like pre-made Excel workbooks
• The Shoring Module is the most important.
• YOU control the loads, load factors and safety factors.
• Outputs .txt and pdf files. Modules can also be saved but need to be
opened by the respective modules (i.e. use Earthpres to open Earthpres)
• Generally does not run without a licence key
• Technically it will “run,” but it will display garbage outputs.
About “Modules”
About “Modules”
About “Modules”
You can over-ride any existing
Wall Height, Pile Diameter or
Pile Spacing for all Modules
Simply by clicking on this.
Automatic Soil and Water Pressures
• Different pressure shapes above the bottom of excavation: Triangular,
Rectangular, Trapezoid, Trapezoidal. Below the wall base, pressures
are always automatically Triangular.
• Earthquake loads can also be applied. In a single granular layer
condition with unbroken slopes, this pressure will mirror an equation
called Mononobe-Okabe. Although the program “recommends” only
applying earthquake to active side, this is subject to Code.
Automatic Soil and Water Pressures
Most commonly
used
You must first create a
Soil layer. Then you can
Override its automatic Basement slabs,
Properties. Grout plugs
Automatic Soil and Water Pressures
Over-writes
Automatic Soil and Water Pressures All existing
pressures
Automatic Soil and Water Pressures
Automatic Soil and Water Pressures
Trial Wedges
(recommended)
Only works for
Unbroken slopes
For LRFD
(Applied automatically
Without display in output)
Automatic Surcharge Pressures
• Civiltech’s “Boussinesq” equation used for strip loading is taken from Teng’s
1962 book, Foundation Design. It is adopted by the State of California
Department of Transportation Trenching and Shoring Manual. It differs from
the one used by DM7.1.
• The equation is applicable to rigid walls. CT Shoring provides an option for
flexible systems (i.e. completely elastic) by dividing Teng’s pressure by 2.
Finally, there is a “semi-flexible” option, which is the average of the results of
the rigid and flexible options.
• Civiltech provides a disclaimer regarding the use of the “flexible” option.
• For infinite loads, Civiltech recommends using the Active Wedge option
(provided). New software feature allows input of soil average friction angle.
• Railroad Loads option is a special case of strip load. New software feature
allows selection of Cooper E60 or E80. Note: Rigid Option automatically
assumed.
Automatic Surcharge Pressures
Unlike the Earthpres
Module, the
Shoring button
Accumulates
Surcharge pressure
Shoring Options
Five wall types are
available.
Shoring Options- Pressures Page
• Imported from Earthpres and
Surcharge, or manually input.
• LRFD factors are NOT shown.
However, they are applied
internally. If applied in previous
module, use FS = 1.
• You can override any pressures
with your own.
Shoring Options- Braces and Forces
Note:
For braced walls, CT
Shoring takes the
moments about the
bottom support.
When more than one
brace is used, this can
be unsafe.
Shoring Options- Output Options
Piles listed will always
deflect too much.
Shoring Options- Output Options
Provides a list of piles
with increasing
rigidity. Also provides
the required Sx.
Shoring Options- Output Options
If providing input pile,
make sure it is listed in
the Shoring lists. If
not listed, revise list
and save.
Shoring Options- Output Options
Typically 50ksi.
Adjusted per code and
judgment
Shoring Options- Output Options
Choose “No” for
Trench Box with at
least 2 braces. Choose
“Fixed” to check
existing, or if shallow
rock expected.
Shoring Options- Output Options
If you don’t know
what this is, leave it
blank.
Shoring Options- Output Options
For braced
excavations. If
unchecked, each span
is analyzed as a simply
supported beam.
Outputs and Diagrams
Sample Output- Earthpres Sample Output- Shoring