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Assignment 2 Due: 11.04.2014

The document provides instructions for an assignment on selecting pile lengths for a bridge pier foundation based on three Eurocode design approaches. It describes each design approach, including which partial factors to use for actions, resistances, and ground strengths. Design Approach 1 checks reliability using two combinations of factors. Approach 2 applies factors to actions and resistances but not ground strengths. Approach 3 applies factors to actions and material properties but not resistances. The student is asked to select suitable pile lengths based on these three approaches for a given pier loading condition and soil properties.

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Assignment 2 Due: 11.04.2014

The document provides instructions for an assignment on selecting pile lengths for a bridge pier foundation based on three Eurocode design approaches. It describes each design approach, including which partial factors to use for actions, resistances, and ground strengths. Design Approach 1 checks reliability using two combinations of factors. Approach 2 applies factors to actions and resistances but not ground strengths. Approach 3 applies factors to actions and material properties but not resistances. The student is asked to select suitable pile lengths based on these three approaches for a given pier loading condition and soil properties.

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CE 462 Foundation Engineering II Department of Civil Engineering

Middle East Technical University, Ankara,Turkey Prof. Dr. K. Önder Çetin

ASSIGNMENT 2
Due: 11.04.2014

1) A bridge pier carrying a characteristic permanent load Gk and variable load Qk of 1400
and 300 kN, respectively, is to be supported by bored cast in place concrete piles
installed in sub-angular, well-graded, medium-dense to dense sand, where overburden
and procedure corrected standard penetration test (SPT) blowcounts, N1,60 are reported
to be 20 blows/30 cm. If ground water table is observed to be located at a depth of 2 m
below ground surface, select a set of suitable lengths for a pile diameter of Ф600 based
on Eurocode Design Approaches 1 through 3. Ignore pile group effects. Assume unit
weights of sand and concrete are 21 and 25 kN/m3, respectively

Hint (Adopted from Bond and Harris, 2008):

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CE 462 Foundation Engineering II Department of Civil Engineering
Middle East Technical University, Ankara,Turkey Prof. Dr. K. Önder Çetin

Euro-code Design Approach 1

“The philosophy of Design Approach 1 is to check reliability with two different combinations
of partial factors. In Combination 1 for pile foundations, partial factors are applied to actions
and small factors to resistances, while ground strengths (when used) are left unfactored. This
is achieved by employing factors from Sets A1, M1, and R1. The crosses on the diagram
indicate that the factors in Set M1 are all 1.0 (and hence strengths are, in effect, unfactored)
and that tolerances Δa are not routinely applied to dimensions.

In Combination 2, partial factors are applied to resistances and to variable actions, while
permanent actions and ground strengths (when used) are left unfactored. This is achieved by
employing factors from Sets A2, M1, and R4. Once again, the crosses on the diagram indicate
that the factors in Sets A2 and M1 are all 1.0 (except those applied to variable actions) and
hence non-variable actions and strengths are unfactored.”

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CE 462 Foundation Engineering II Department of Civil Engineering
Middle East Technical University, Ankara,Turkey Prof. Dr. K. Önder Çetin

Euro-code Design Approach 2

“The philosophy of Design Approach 2 is to check reliability by applying partial factors to


actions or action effects and to resistance, while ground strengths (when used) are left
unfactored. This philosophy requires no amendment when used to design pile foundations.
Design Approach 2 employs factors from Sets A1, M1, and R2. The factors in Set M1 are all
1.0 (and hence strengths are unfactored) and tolerances Δa are not routinely applied to
dimensions.”

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Assignment 2: Piles Subjected to Compressive Loads in Cohesionless Soils
CE 462 Foundation Engineering II Department of Civil Engineering
Middle East Technical University, Ankara,Turkey Prof. Dr. K. Önder Çetin

Euro-code Design Approach 3

“The philosophy of Design Approach 3 is to check reliability by applying partial factors to


actions and to material properties (when used), while resistances are left unfactored. This
philosophy remains unchanged when used in the design of pile foundations. Design Approach
3 employs factors from Sets A1 or A2 (on structural and geotechnical actions respectively),
M2, and R3. The factors in Set R3 are all 1.0 (except those applied to tensile pile resistance)
and hence resistance is mostly unfactored. Tolerances, Δa, are not routinely applied to
dimensions and the model factor γRd is usually not needed.”

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