System and methods for supporting and/or straightening a building wall are provided. The systems and methods utilize a pivot bracket.

System and methods for supporting and/or straightening a building wall are provided. The systems and methods utilize a pivot bracket.

A soil retaining system combining flat sheet pile walls in an open cell configuration includes integral soil anchors providing an improved earth retaining system. Another aspect of the invention is a method of designing and installing a soil retaining system with an open sheet pile cell structure having integral soil anchors. The method includes, inter alia, calculating soil forces by taking into account material strength of sheet pile, soil friction against the sheet pile in combination with the strength of the integral soil anchor, selecting sheet pile size and length based on soil forces calculation; and installation of sheet pile to form a soil retaining system. The integral soil anchors serve to provide higher load resistance to the improved earth retaining system.

A soil retaining system combining flat sheet pile walls in an open cell configuration includes integral soil anchors providing an improved earth retaining system. Another aspect of the invention is a method of designing and installing a soil retaining system with an open sheet pile cell structure having integral soil anchors. The method includes, inter alia, calculating soil forces by taking into account material strength of sheet pile, soil friction against the sheet pile in combination with the strength of the integral soil anchor, selecting sheet pile size and length based on soil forces calculation; and installation of sheet pile to form a soil retaining system. The integral soil anchors serve to provide higher load resistance to the improved earth retaining system.

A method for fabricating a retaining wall configured to extend into a ground comprising the steps of providing at least a first longitudinal support having a receiving part and extending along a first longitudinal direction; placing the first longitudinal support transversely to the ground; providing at least a first module comprising a longitudinal element and a first wing; positioning the first module parallel to the first longitudinal support; connecting the first module to the first longitudinal support, so that the first wing of the first module is slidably engaged with the receiving part of the first longitudinal support; then moving said first module in translation along the first longitudinal direction, and sinking said first module into the ground and then the first longitudinal support into the ground.

A sheet pile retaining wall system employing corrugated sheet piles not requiring temporary shoring to be used when widening and/or stabilization of existing highway embankment. The wall system provides a front face wall having a plurality of resistance fins perpendicularly extending therefrom via three-way connectors. The fin sheet piles first include a brace fin sheet for reducing stresses in the front face wall, then a series of additional resistance fin sheets terminating at an elevation below the face wall for accommodating a pipe drainage/utility cradle. Between the slope of the existing embankment, a temporary excavation bench, an excavation backslope, and the higher front face wall is reinforced concrete backfill for pre-stressing the wall system when fluidand, when set, optionally engaging supplementary structural features within the set concrete backfill such as dowels/tie down anchors.

A soil retaining system combining flat sheet pile walls in an open cell configuration includes integral soil anchors providing an improved earth retaining system. Another aspect of the invention is a method of designing and installing a soil retaining system with an open sheet pile cell structure having integral soil anchors. The method includes, inter alia, calculating soil forces by taking into account material strength of sheet pile, soil friction against the sheet pile in combination with the strength of the integral soil anchor, selecting sheet pile size and length based on soil forces calculation; and installation of sheet pile to form a soil retaining system. The integral soil anchors serve to provide higher load resistance to the improved earth retaining system.

A soil retaining system combining flat sheet pile walls in an open cell configuration includes integral soil anchors providing an improved earth retaining system. Another aspect of the invention is a method of designing and installing a soil retaining system with an open sheet pile cell structure having integral soil anchors. The method includes, inter alia, calculating soil forces by taking into account material strength of sheet pile, soil friction against the sheet pile in combination with the strength of the integral soil anchor, selecting sheet pile size and length based on soil forces calculation; and installation of sheet pile to form a soil retaining system. The integral soil anchors serve to provide higher load resistance to the improved earth retaining system.

A curable water-swelling water stop material including: 100 parts by mass of a resin component which includes 40 to 100 parts by mass of a curable resin having a hydrolysable alkoxysilyl group and 0 to 60 parts by mass of a polyether polyol; 0.3 to 25 parts by mass of an aminosilane coupling agent; 20 to 250 parts by mass of a water-absorbent resin; and 0 to 160 parts by mass of an extender pigment, in which the hydrolysable alkoxysilyl group having a structure represented by Formula (1) XCH.sub.2SiR.sup.1.sub.Y(OR.sup.2).sub.3-Y, in which X is a bonding functional group having a heteroatom with an unshared electron pair and bonding to a methylene group bonding to a silicon atom of a hydrolysable silicon group, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are C.sub.1-C.sub.3 alkyl groups respectively, and Y is 0, 1 or 2.

A curable water-swelling water stop material including: 100 parts by mass of a resin component which includes 40 to 100 parts by mass of a curable resin having a hydrolysable alkoxysilyl group and 0 to 60 parts by mass of a polyether polyol; 0.3 to 25 parts by mass of an aminosilane coupling agent; 20 to 250 parts by mass of a water-absorbent resin; and 0 to 160 parts by mass of an extender pigment, in which the hydrolysable alkoxysilyl group having a structure represented by Formula (1) XCH.sub.2SiR.sup.1.sub.Y(OR.sup.2).sub.3-Y, in which X is a bonding functional group having a heteroatom with an unshared electron pair and bonding to a methylene group bonding to a silicon atom of a hydrolysable silicon group, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are C.sub.1-C.sub.3 alkyl groups respectively, and Y is 0, 1 or 2.