Flexural Performance of Drilled Shafts with Minor Flaws in Stiff Clay
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 128, Issue 12
Abstract
Lateral loads are often the primary forces that act on drilled shafts when they support retaining walls, bridge piers, or building foundations. The construction of drilled shafts often inadvertently introduces flaws that are not always detectable with well-performed nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques. The effect of such undetectable minor flaws on the lateral-load performance of drilled shafts needs to be assessed and subsequently considered in the design. This paper summarizes a field study that consisted of NDE of six, full-scale drilled shafts with preinstalled voids and lateral-load tests that were performed on the six test shafts. Results from the field study indicated that undetectable (by NDE) void flaws occupying areas of up to 15% of the cross-sectional area of the drilled shaft could reduce free-head shear capacity up to 16%. A subsequent numerical analysis was performed to filter out all variables, other than void flaws, that could affect the lateral-load deformation of drilled shafts. Numerical analysis results validated the field tests measurements. A parametric study of variables affecting the load-deformation behavior of drilled shafts suggests that a reduction in moment capacity of up to 27% is possible with undetected voids present in the shafts that were tested.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 128 • Issue 12 • December 2002
Pages: 974 - 985
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Copyright © 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Jun 7, 2001
Accepted: Jan 17, 2002
Published online: Nov 15, 2002
Published in print: Dec 2002
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