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Deep Foundation

Deign Methods

Pile Selection
Guide

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Ultimate Pile Load Capacity

Shaft Resistance

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Shaft Capacity in Clay
(Alpha Method)

Shaft Capacity in Clay


(Alpha Method)

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Shaft Capacity in Clay
(Alpha Method)

Soft-stiff
clay
Adhesion
factors

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Nature of variation of undrained shear strength (cu) with time around a pile
driven into soft clay

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Variation of Qs with time for a pile driven into soft clay


(based on load test results of Terzaghi and Peck, 1967)

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Compaction of sand near driven piles
(after Meyerhof, 1961)

= pile critical depth

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Unit frictional resistance for piles in sand

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• For z = 0 to L’
fs = Ko’tan tan
Where  = Ko’

• For z = L’ to L
fs = fz=L

Qs = fs p ΔL
Where
p = perimeter of pile
ΔL = incremental pile length which p and fs
are taken constant

Shaft Capacity in Sand


(Beta Method)

 is the shaft soil friction angle

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Shaft Capacity in Sand
(Beta Method)

Shaft Capacity in Sand


(Beta Method)

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Vesic Tests

Shaft Capacity in Sand


(Practical Design)

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Shaft Resistance

End Bearing

10
End Bearing Failure
Assumptions

End Bearing
Failure
Assumptions

11
End Bearing Factor (Nq)

End Bearing based on SPT

12
End Bearing Layered Soils

End Bearing Issues

13
Cone Penetration Test (cpt)

Shaft Resistance in Clays

14
Shaft Resistance in SAND

Beware of variability with


different methods

End Bearing

15
Piles to Rock

Piles to Rock

16
Importance of Shaft Friction

Piles to Rock
a, b reduction factors
(Williams & Pells 1981)

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Piles to Rock
End Bearing Parameters

Uplift Capacity

18
Uplift Capacity SAND

Uplift Capacity SAND


Single Pile

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Cyclic Loading

Cyclic Stability Diagram

20
Negative Skin Friction

Down drag due to settlement

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Negative skin friction on a pile in the harbor of
Oslo, Norway
(based on Bjerrum et al. (1969) and Wong and Teh (1995)

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Pile Groups

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Pile Group Efficiency
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Friction Pile Groups in Clay

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Block Analysi
s

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Other Pile Group Cases

Effect of Weak Under Layer

27
Pile Structural Design

Buckling

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Buckling

Corrosion Rates for Steel

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Corrosion Protection Methods

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