More Resources Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Lateral Loading of Piles Design and Construction of Driven Pile Foundations, 2016 Edition. Having looked at axial loads on driven piles, we come to the subject of lateral loads on driven piles. Deep foundations in general are more suitable for lateral loads than shallow ones, so this … Continue reading Driven Pile Design: Lateral Loads on Piles
More Resources Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Driven Pile Settlement and Group Capacity Design and Construction of Driven Pile Foundations, 2016 Edition, Volume I covers the topics discussed in this post, and does so in more detail, you need to look at this if you're serious about this topic. Overview As a general rule, … Continue reading Driven Pile Design: Axial Group Bearing Capacity and Settlement
In the previous post we looked at the various ways of computing the "bearing capacity" of the pile. We also made the case that "bearing capacity" wasn't a really accurate way of characterising the load bearing performance of a driven pile. In this post we will address both of these issues and show the most … Continue reading Driven Pile Design: Static Load Testing and Axial Settlement
As mentioned earlier, it would be a long business to catalog all of the methods that have been devised to estimate the axial bearing capacity (with all of the problems of that concept) of driven piles. Here we will show how three of these methods apply to our test case (reproduced below.) More Resources Foundation … Continue reading Driven Pile Design: Three Methods of Analysis
More Resources Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Driven Pile Bearing Capacity Design and Construction of Driven Pile Foundations, 2016 Edition, Volume I covers the topics discussed in this post. Before I get into the actual estimation (and estimation is the operative word here) of axial capacity, I need to make some important observations, as … Continue reading Driven Pile Design: Axial Loads, General Considerations
Another view of Santa Fe's Vulcan 560 at work. This wasn't the ideal way to lean the hammer, but one of the things that make Vulcan hammers popular was their ability to perform when misused or mishandled. The design of driven pile foundations--the oldest form of deep foundation in use--is something that gets the short … Continue reading Driven Pile Design: Introduction and Overview
The discontinuation of the TAMWAVE wave equation program has left something of a void in our offerings. This post explores the alternatives that we have on hand, primarily for educational purposes. (All offerings of this site are subject to the Terms and Conditions of This Site.) The Problems When the first geotechnical site of this family … Continue reading The Wave Equation after TAMWAVE: Alternatives and Substitutes
One of the mysteries of geotechnical engineering relative to driven piles is why the Soviets, with their mathematical prowess, never applied wave mechanics to predict the performance of pile driving systems using the wave equation. In a sense this book, which is a classic in the geotechnical literature, answers that, but not in a direct … Continue reading Some Lessons from “Savinov and Luskin”
For the entire book, click here. This is something of the "Holy Grail" of the whole vibratory project: the ability to estimate the static capacity of piles driven by vibration. The Soviets took up the question early in the development of these machines and ran into the same obstacles that most everyone since then has … Continue reading About the Bearing Capacity of Piles Driven by Vibration
It’s citation time again; this paper, authored by Heeyong Huh, Heedong Goh, Jun Won Kang, Stijn François and Loukas F. Kallivokas, cites both Closed …Comments on “Using the Impulse–Response Pile Data for Soil Characterization”
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