Wall system employing extruded panel sections
First Claim
1. In a retainer wall for use in retaining soil or as a sea wall, in which a plurality of individual panels formed of extruded plastic material are positioned in lateral side-by-side relation and in which generally vertical adjacent marginal edges of said panels are interconnected to form a wall, the improvement comprising a plurality of wale members formed of extruded plastic material and positioned along one side of said wall laterally of said panels, said wale members having overlapping and mutually interlocking end portions for laterally transferring loads and bending moments between adjacent said wale members, and having mutually interengageable laterally extending interlocking flanges for transmitting bending moments between interlocked said members.
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Abstract
Wall systems are disclosed which employ a plurality of individual panels formed of extruded polymeric material joined in edge-to-edge relation including wale members which are vertically offset and interlocked at end portions thereof with adjacent wale members. The wall systems include connector elements for joining and interlocking the adjacent panel edges, and panels are disclosed, each having a continuous convex surface between their opposite side edges and strengthening ribs formed on a concave surface disposed opposite the convex surface thereof. A revetment system is disclosed in which a pair of wall sections are positioned in facing spaced-apart relation and joined by tie bolts extending through the wale members, to receive concrete therebetween.
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- 1. In a retainer wall for use in retaining soil or as a sea wall, in which a plurality of individual panels formed of extruded plastic material are positioned in lateral side-by-side relation and in which generally vertical adjacent marginal edges of said panels are interconnected to form a wall, the improvement comprising a plurality of wale members formed of extruded plastic material and positioned along one side of said wall laterally of said panels, said wale members having overlapping and mutually interlocking end portions for laterally transferring loads and bending moments between adjacent said wale members, and having mutually interengageable laterally extending interlocking flanges for transmitting bending moments between interlocked said members.
- 7. In a retainer wall system including an assembly of individual generally vertically extending panels joined together in edge-to-edge relation, and wale members extending along one side of said assembled panels and connected to said panels, the improvement in wale members wherein wale members are interlocked to each other in partially overlapping relation, and have means thereon defining tongue portions along a side thereof and groove portions along another side thereof, said tongue portions being proportioned to receive said groove portion of an overlapping said wale member for transmitting bending moments therebetween.
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16. A wall system in which a plurality of individual and generally identical vertically elongated panels are supported by wale members along a face surface thereof, and in which said system includes means joining the vertical edge of one panel with the adjacent vertical edge of another panel, and tie backs extend through said wale elements to ground anchors at a side of said panels opposite from said wale elements, the improvement comprising said panels, wale elements, tie backs and anchors formed of polymeric material, and said wale elements are vertically offset and longitudinally overlapped and have flanges which are interconnected at the overlapped portions with flanges of an adjacent overlapping wale element.
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17. In a retainer wall for use in retaining soil or as a sea wall, in which a plurality of individual panels formed of extruded plastic material are positioned in lateral side-by-side relation and in which generally vertical adjacent marginal edges of said panels are interconnected to form a wall, the improvement comprising a plurality of wale members positioned along one side of said wall laterally of said panels, adjacent said wale members being vertically offset and having overlapping and end portions with adjacent said member being vertically offset and interlocked with the end portions of one member being mutually interlocked with the end portion of an adjacent said member for laterally transferring loads and bending moments between adjacent said wale members, and tie bolts connecting said wale members to said panels.
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18. In a retainer wall for use in retaining soil or as a sea wall, in which a plurality of individual panels formed of extruded plastic material are positioned in lateral side-by-side relation and in which generally vertical adjacent marginal edges of said panels are interconnected to form a wall, the improvement comprising a plurality of wale members positioned along one side of said wall laterally of said panels, said wale members each having a generally channel-shaped body with the open side thereof facing said panels, an outwardly flanged portion along one of the sides thereof and an inwardly flanged portion along the opposite side proportioned to mate with the corresponding outwardly flanged portion of a vertically adjacent overlapping said wale member, said wale members being vertically overlapped and mutually interlocked at said flanged portions for laterally transferring loads and bending moments between adjacent said wale members.
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