All You Need to Know About Secant Pile Walls

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SECANT PILE WALLS

Nowadays, the need for advanced shoring techniques has become much more necessary. So, to support a structure to prevent a collapse there are various forms of shoring are used. From all of them, one of the most important and widely used forms of shoring is secant shoring.

There are some of the most imperative aspects of construction which are not permanent. There are some cases when provisional measures are required to make the process of building safer, faster, and more convenient. And here shoring work comes into a picture. Shoring is one of the most imperative measures that help to improve the stability and security of the project.

What is Secant Pile Shoring?

In the secant piling method, a continuous wall is made up of the intersection of 2 combinations of piles – a reinforced wall (secondary wall) and the un-reinforced wall (primary wall).

Construction of secant pile wall is usually required when the building construction work is going on soft ground or sandy oil.

How Secant Pile Walls are formed?

Secant pile walls are generally constructed by installing piles in a predetermined sequence. Unreinforced piles are installed first followed by reinforced piles which overlap. The purpose of making secant pile wall is to make sure that the strata behind the wall would remain intact during construction and to guarantee security from the risk due to high lateral and downward pressure.

Secant pile walls can be constructed using different piling methods such as bored pile, soil mixing, CFA, cased secant pile.

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