Author(s)

Mamdouh Hamza and Hesham Hamed

Abstract

One of the deepest diaphragm wall structures built in soft clay, 62.5m deep below Lowest Astronomical Tide (LAT), is designed to be used in the Port-Said East Harbor. The Quay wall platform having 35 m width and 1200 m long, is supported on series of four barrettes spaced 7m in the longitudinal direction. The four barrettes are connected in the transverse direction by 3x0.8 m top beam. Each barrette is having 3xlm cross-section and extended 60m below sea level. The front barrette is a T-section extended to 34.5m below LAT level, forming a part of the front wall The designed dredging level in front of the Quay wall is 18m below sea level. The finite element/finite difference program FLAG 3D is used to analyze the soil-structur

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