Contents of Pile Design and Construction Practice fifth Version

Basic ideas and practices

• Operate of piles
• Historic
• Calculations of load-carrying capability
• Dynamic piling formulae
• Code of follow necessities
• Tasks of engineer and contractor

Varieties of pile

• Classification of piles
• Pushed displacement piles
• Pushed and cast-in-place displacement piles
• Alternative piles
• Composite piles
• Minipiles and micropiles
• Components governing alternative of kind of pile
• Reuse of current piled foundations

Piling tools and strategies

• Gear for pushed piles
• Gear for putting in pushed and cast-in-place piles
• Gear for putting in bored and cast-in-place piles
• Process in pile set up
• Setting up piles in teams

Calculating the resistance of piles to compressive hundreds

• Basic issues
• Calculations for piles in fine-grained soils
• Piles in coarse-grained soils
• Piles in soils intermediate between sands and clays
• Piles in layered fine- and coarse-grained soils
• The settlement of the one pile on the working load for piles in soil
• Piles bearing on rock
• Piles in fill – adverse pores and skin friction
• Labored examples

Pile teams underneath compressive loading

• Group motion in piled foundations
• Pile teams in fine-grained soils
• Pile teams in coarse-grained soils
• Eurocode 7 suggestions for pile teams
• Pile teams terminating in rock
• Pile teams in crammed floor
• Results on pile teams of set up strategies
• Precautions in opposition to heave results in pile teams
• Pile teams beneath basements
• The optimization of pile teams to scale back differential settlements in clay
• Labored examples

The design of piled foundations to withstand uplift and lateral loading

• The prevalence of uplift and lateral loading
• Uplift resistance of piles
• Single vertical piles subjected to lateral hundreds
• Lateral hundreds on raking piles
• Lateral hundreds on teams of piles
• Labored examples

Some features of the structural design of piles and pile teams

• Basic design necessities
• Designing strengthened concrete piles for lifting after fabrication
• Designing piles to withstand driving stresses
• The consequences on bending of piles beneath floor stage
• The design of axially loaded piles as columns
• Lengthening piles
• Bonding piles with caps and floor beams
• The design of pile caps
• The design of pile capping beams and connecting floor beams

Piling for marine constructions

• Berthing constructions and jetties
• Mounted offshore platforms
• Pile installations for marine constructions
• Labored examples

Miscellaneous piling issues

• Piling for equipment foundations
• Piling for underpinning
• Piling in mining subsidence areas
• Piling in frozen floor
• Piled foundations for bridges on land
• Piled foundations for over-water bridges
• Piled foundations in karst
• Power piles
• Labored instance

The sturdiness of piled foundations

• Basic
• Sturdiness and safety of timber piles
• Sturdiness and safety of concrete piles
• Sturdiness and safety of metal piles

Floor investigations, piling contracts, pile testing

• Floor investigations
• Piling contracts and specs
• Management of pile set up
• Load testing of piles
• Assessments for the structural integrity of piles

Preface to Pile Design and Construction Practice fifth Version

Piling rigs are a commonplace characteristic on constructing websites in cities and cities in the present day.

The persevering with introduction of recent, extra highly effective, and self-erecting machines for putting in piled foundations has remodeled the economics of this type of building in floor situations the place,

Previously, first consideration would have been given to standard unfold or raft foundations, with piling being adopted solely as a final resort in troublesome floor.

The elevated adoption of piling just isn’t solely as a result of availability of extra environment friendly mechanical tools.

Developments in analytical strategies of calculating bearing capability and dynamic strategies for load and integrity testing have resulted in higher assurance of sound long-term efficiency.

Additional economies in basis and superstructure design are actually attainable due to the elevated skill to foretell actions of piles underneath load,

Thus permitting engineers to undertake with confidence the idea of redistribution of load between piles with consequent financial savings in general pile lengths and cross-sectional dimensions, as described on this re-creation.

For the reason that publication of the fourth version of this ebook, Eurocode 7, Geotechnical Design, has been issued.

Because the identify implies this code doesn’t cope with all features of basis design; there are intensive cross-references to different Eurocodes coping with such issues as the overall foundation of design and the properties of constructional supplies.

The Code doesn’t cowl basis design and notably building as comprehensively as the current British Normal 8004 Foundations, and the British Nationwide Annex to Eurocode 7 is but to be printed.

The authors have endeavoured to co-ordinate the ideas of each codes on this new ebook.

The authors are grateful to Professor Richard Jardine and his colleagues at Imperial Faculty and Thomas Telford Restricted for permission to cite from their ebook on the ICP technique of designing piles pushed into clays and sands based mostly on intensive laboratory analysis and sensible discipline testing of instrumented piles.

Their work represents a substantial advance on earlier design strategies.

The authors additionally gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Mr Ian Higginbottom in checking the proofs and Mr Tony Bracegirdle of the Geotechnical Consulting Group for his useful feedback on the applying of Eurocode 7 to the design of piles and pile teams.

Many specialist piling corporations and producers of piling tools have kindly provided technical data and illustrations of their processes and merchandise.

The place acceptable the supply of this data is given within the textual content.

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