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 = Kotan =tan
Where = Ko

For z = L to L
fs = fz=L

Qs = fs p L
Where
p = perimeter of pile
L = 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

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 End Bearing Failure
Assumptions

End Bearing
Failure
Assumptions

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 End Bearing Factor (Nq)

End Bearing based on SPT

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End Bearing Layered Soils

End Bearing Issues

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Cone Penetration Test (cpt)

Shaft Resistance in Clays

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Shaft Resistance in SAND

Beware of variability with

different methods

End Bearing

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Piles to Rock

Piles to Rock

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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

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Uplift Capacity SAND

Uplift Capacity SAND

Single Pile

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 Cyclic Loading

Cyclic Stability Diagram

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 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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Block Analysis

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 Other Pile Group Cases

Effect of Weak Under Layer

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Pile Structural Design

Buckling

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 Buckling

Corrosion Rates for Steel

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Corrosion Protection Methods

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