Case History Evaluation of Laterally Loaded Piles
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 129, Issue 3
Abstract
This paper examines seven case histories of load tests on piles or drilled shafts under lateral load. Since the current design software to estimate lateral load resistance of deep foundations requires curves. The first approach used was correlative whereby soil parameters determined from in situ tests [standard penetration test (SPT) and cone penetration test (CPT)] were used as input values for standard curves. In the second approach curves were calculated directly from the stress deformation data measured in dilatometer (DMT) and cone pressuremeter tests. The correlative evaluation revealed that, on the average, predictions based upon the SPT were conservative for all loading levels, and using parameters from the CPT best predicted field behavior. Typically, predictions were conservative, except at the maximum load. Since traditionally SPT and CPT correlation-based curves are for “sands” or “clays,” this study suggests that silts, silty sands, and clayey sands should use cohesive curves. For the directly calculated curves, DMT derived curves predict well at low lateral loads, but at higher load levels the predictions become unconservative. curves derived from pressuremeter tests predicted well for both “sands” and “clays” where pore pressures are not anticipated.
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Received: Sep 19, 2000
Accepted: May 13, 2002
Published online: Feb 14, 2003
Published in print: Mar 2003
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