Use of Pile Driving Analysis for Assessment of Axial Load Capacity of Piles

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• Creators:
  Salgado, Rodrigo ; Zhang, Yanbei
• Corporate Creators:
  Joint Transportation Research Program (Ind.) ; Indiana. Dept. of Transportation
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Piles (Supports)
  • Axial loads
  • Load limits
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/IN/JTRP-2012/11
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Indiana
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  Driven piles are commonly used in foundation engineering. Pile driving formulae, which directly relate the pile set per blow ; to the capacity of the pile, are commonly used to decide whether an installed pile will have the designed capacity. However, ; existing formulae have been proposed based on empirical observations and have not been validated scientifically, so some ; might over‐predict pile capacity, while others may be too conservative. In this report, a more advanced and realistic model ; developed at Purdue University for dynamic pile driving analysis was used to develop more accurate pile driving formulae. ; These formulae are derived for piles installed in typical soil profiles: a floating pile in sand, an end‐bearing pile in sand, a ; floating pile in clay, an end‐bearing pile in clay and a pile crossing a normally consolidated clay layer and resting on a dense ; sand layer. The proposed driving formulae are validated through well documented case histories of driven piles. ; Comparison of the predictions from the proposed formulae with the results from static load tests, dynamic load tests and ; conventional formulae show that they produce reasonably accurate predictions of pile capacity based on pile set ; observations.
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  PDF
• Funding:
  DOI: 10.5703/1288284314671 ; SPR-3378
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25396/dot_25396_DS1.pdf
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• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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