Patent ID: 6052963
Filing Date: 2000-04-25
Classification: E02D

Abstract:
A cast wall comprising a succession of panels having end edges and touching via said edges and made by casting a binder into contiguous lengths of trench dug in the ground in line with one another, each panel having reinforcement with an end portion thereof, said wall further including link means between the reinforcement of two contiguous panels, said link means being separate from said reinforcement and comprising an anchor element in one of said panels and a link element in other one of the panels, each anchor element and each link element comprises a plurality of bars disposed substantially in horizontal planes, the free ends of the bars being secured to a vertical lock-forming sheet piling type element, at least a portion of the bars being separably engaged without direct mechanical linking in the end portion of the reinforcement of the panel, and the lock-forming sheet piling type element of the anchor element cooperating with the lock-forming sheet piling type element of the link element.