Driven Pile Design: Axial Group Bearing Capacity and Settlement

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

Driven Pile Design: Three Methods of Analysis

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

Designing Cantilever Sheet Pile Walls Using a Chart

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