MORE RESOURCES Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Pile Dynamics Design and Construction of Driven Pile Foundations, 2016 Edition. The second volume covers this topic. It should be obvious that the state of our predictive methods should make verification necessary for deep foundations, and that is certainly the case. One type of verification already discussed … Continue reading Driven Pile Design: Inverse and Verification Methods
More Resources Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Pile Dynamics Design and Construction of Driven Pile Foundations, 2016 Edition. The second volume covers this topic. Overview Now we come to the topic that was the genesis of this and the related sites: pile dynamics. There's quite a lot on the subject, so an extensive review … Continue reading Driven Pile Design: Wave Equation Analysis
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
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
Sheet pile walls are deceptively simple retaining walls to analyse. Because a) the loads are generally distributed and b) the layering of the soil is complex, a simple problem can turn into a complicated one very rapidly. An outline of the hand solution method for cantilever walls is shown below. That's why today software such … Continue reading Designing Cantilever Sheet Pile Walls Using a Chart
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 rest of the book, click here. The resolution of the June plenum of the CPSU Central Committee emphasizes the need, when developing and implementing new technological processes and machines, to proceed from the point that they meet the requirements of the most rational and economical use of social labor, material and monetary resources, … Continue reading Conclusion
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