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Research & Reviews: Journal of Engineering and Technology
ISSN: 2319-9873
Civil engineering 2019
International Conference on
Structural and
Civil Engineering Research
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ince the urbanization has raised the cost of land, it is necessary to go
deeper into the ground and also towering vertically towards the sky. A deep
excavation into the ground is fundamental for creating additional floor space
to meet increasing space requirements for parking in multi-story buildings.
Numbers of deep excavation city centers are increasing every year. Structures
in the immediate vicinity of excavations and dense traffic scenario have made
excavations a difficult task to execute. In this context, analysis and design of
proper deep excavations and their supporting systems are essential. Even in
complicated urban settings, deep retaining systems have been successfully
applied by overcoming construction challenges. Nowadays Tirana, capital of
Albania is lacking space for new residential buildings. So it is necessary to
make interventions in soils for its stability in vertical cut in order to minimize
risks in the structures nearby. The embedded retaining walls are presented as
one of the best solutions. Embedded retaining walls are walls that penetrate
into the ground and rely to a significant extent or even completely on the passive
resistance of the ground for their support. Also ground anchors are used as a
support for high depths. The embedded retaining walls taken in this study will
be: pile walls, diaphragm walls and sheet pile walls. We will design these walls
for different excavation depths. Finally for each kind of retaining wall, we will
define the cost of materials, the cost of construction, and their displacements.
Based on these conditions we will compare these retaining walls in order to
define which wall is a better solution, based on technical-economical features,
for each excavation depth that we have taken in the process of design.
Biography
Marku has completed his Master in Structural Engineering
in 2016 from Polytechnic University of Tirana. In 2017, he
starts the International PhD course at the University of
Ferrara where he is currently carrying out his research studies
around energy efficiency in residential buildings. Currently, he
conducts didactic activities as Teaching Assistant at the Polis
University in civil engineering sector in different courses such
as Reinforced Concrete Structures and Steel Constructions.
Sincehe joinedPOLIS in2017,hehaspublishedsomepapers in
reputed journals and took part in different conferences.
aguljeln_marku@universitetipolis.edu.alTechnical-economical comparison of embedded retaining walls
Aguljeln Marku Merita Guri and Nikolla Vesho
POLIS University, Albania
Aguljeln Marku et al., JET 2019, Volume:8