ABSTRACT
Steel sheet piles are longitudinally combined to form a longer pile in the course of driving them into the ground in places such as under bridge girders, where overhead clearance is limited. To connect piles, sheet piles are welded at each corresponding end, and splice plates are welded to fill a section shortage of the interlock where welding can’t be applied. The splice plates tend to be larger and heavier according to the increase of size of sheet piles, and hence welding work becomes laborious. To reduce such burden, a small-sized splice plate that can keep the original splice plate in a like diamond shape was developed. The validity and effectiveness of the newly developed splice plate was confirmed through experiments and construction practices on site.
