The invention discloses a gravity
wharf built on a
silt foundation and a method for constructing the gravity
wharf. The method for constructing the gravity
wharf includes (1), designing a wharf structure and a foundation, reinforcing a composite foundation of the
silt foundation by sand compaction piles and determining the
bearing capacity, a sand
pile replacement rate and a reinforcing range of the designed foundation of the wharf; (2), excavating a foundation trench, specifically, excavating the foundation trench until the depth of an excavated part of the foundation trench is smaller than a bottom elevation of the foundation trench and the difference between the depth of the excavated part of the foundation trench and the bottom elevation of the foundation trench is not smaller than one times the
diameter of each sand compaction
pile, constructing the sand piles, detecting the compactness of the sand piles after the sand piles are completely constructed, determining or re-determining the bottom elevation of the foundation trench, and secondarily excavating the foundation trench; (3), constructing a rock rip-rap foundation
bed, performing rock rip-rap and leveling the top surface of the foundation
bed; (4), mounting a precast
caisson and enabling the top surface of the precast
caisson to be higher than a construction
water level; (5), performing rock rip-rap on the inside of the
caisson; (6), constructing an upper structure of the wharf; (7), determining a rear backfill structural form and a backfill loading mode of the wharf, and performing rear backfill loading construction on the wharf. The gravity wharf and the method have the advantages that the
bearing capacity of the foundation can be greatly improved, and influence of back-silting in a wharf construction procedure can be overcome.