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5.3 Structural Design

- The document provides guidelines for geotechnical design parameters for pile foundations including: determining soil strength parameters from subsoil investigation; assuming a wall friction angle equal to the internal friction angle; using a earth pressure coefficient of 1.0; and limiting maximum overburden pressure for calculating shaft and bearing resistance. - It also specifies to assume the entire overburden is submerged, use a factor of safety of 2.5, and calculate bulk density at 100% saturation for submerged soil density.

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5.3 Structural Design

- The document provides guidelines for geotechnical design parameters for pile foundations including: determining soil strength parameters from subsoil investigation; assuming a wall friction angle equal to the internal friction angle; using a earth pressure coefficient of 1.0; and limiting maximum overburden pressure for calculating shaft and bearing resistance. - It also specifies to assume the entire overburden is submerged, use a factor of safety of 2.5, and calculate bulk density at 100% saturation for submerged soil density.

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• Result of sub-structure investigation will be used for adopting the value of angle of

internal friction φ and cohesion of soil, c.

• Angle of wall friction δ shall be taken as equal to φ deg.

• Co-efficient of earth pressure ‘K’ shall be taken as 1.0.

• Maximum overburden pressure at bottom of pile for calculation of shaft resistance and

bearing resistance shall be limited to 15 times the diameter of the pile. The maximum

depth shall be considered from existing ground level.

• The entire overburden shall be assumed fully submerged for the purpose of calculation of

safe load.

• Factor of safety to arrive at working load = 2.5.

• Bulk density corresponding to 100% saturation shall be calculated and used for working

out submerged density of soil.

m) Permissible increase in allowable bearing pressure or resistance of soils should be as per

IS:1893

(Part-1)-2002.

5.3 Structural Design

a) Computation of bending moments along the pile length due to forces applied at the pile cap

level

shall be based on a space frame model with actual stiffness of piles restrained by springs

simulating the soil stiffness. In case upper strata of soil will have liquefaction potential, soil

springs shall be ignored in the idealization.

b) The structural design of the pile and pile cap shall be checked in SLS and ULS conditions

as

described in section 3.13.


c) Vertical reinforcement of pile shall be curtailed only after lowest point of contraflexure

providing

development length below the point of fixity (i.e. point of maximum moment below point of

contraflexure).

5.4 Foundations Stiffness

5.4.1 Soil Static Stiffness

Soil static mechanical characteristics and stiffness for lateral loads shall be taken from IS:

2911

(Part -I/Section 2 Appendix C).

5.4.2 Soil Dynamic Stiffness – Earthquake loads only

The lateral stiffness’s of soil under very dynamic loads such as earthquake loads are generally

higher than static values used for all other static loads.

Dynamic stiffness’s are calculated using particular geotechnical tests in order to evaluate

shear and

compression velocity, G values, and other parameters of the soil.

These parameters are not provided in available geotechnical reports.

However, correlations can be made between dynamic stiffness and SPT values.

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