Pile driving formulas based on pile wave equation analyses

Pile driving formulas, which directly relate the pile set resulting from a hammer blow to the static load capacity of the pile, are often used to decide whether a pile will have the required design capacity. However, existing formulas do not consider soil or pile type, and do not, in general, reliab...

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Published in:Computers and geotechnics Vol. 81; pp. 307 - 321
Main Authors: Salgado, Rodrigo, Zhang, Yanbei, Abou-Jaoude, Grace, Loukidis, Dimitrios, Bisht, Vibhav
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2017
Elsevier BV
Subjects:
Capacity
Case histories
Case studies
Comparative analysis
Dynamic loads
Engineering
Load tests
Mathematical models
Numerical modeling
Pile driving
Pile driving formula
Pile dynamics
Pile load capacity
Piles
Predictions
Soil
Wave equations
Numerical modeling
Case studies
Pile load capacity
Pile dynamics
Pile driving formula
ISSN:0266-352X, 1873-7633
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Summary:Pile driving formulas, which directly relate the pile set resulting from a hammer blow to the static load capacity of the pile, are often used to decide whether a pile will have the required design capacity. However, existing formulas do not consider soil or pile type, and do not, in general, reliably predict pile capacity. In this paper, an advanced model for dynamic pile driving analysis was used to develop accurate pile driving formulas. The proposed driving formulas are validated through well-documented case histories. Comparisons of predictions from the proposed formulas with results from static and dynamic load tests show that they produce reasonably accurate predictions of pile capacity based on pile set observations.
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ISSN:0266-352X
1873-7633
DOI:10.1016/j.compgeo.2016.09.004