Horizontal Bearing Capacity of Piles in a Lateritic Soil
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 137, Issue 1
Abstract
The behavior of pile foundations subjected to horizontal loading is typically evaluated using horizontal load tests. Although load tests are valuable to understand site-specific soil-structure interaction phenomena, validated predictive methods are also useful during the design phase. In this study, the results from horizontal load tests are compared with methods which predict the horizontal bearing capacity of piles using in situ measurements of soil behavior. Specifically, several horizontal load tests were performed in order to evaluate the behavior of two 12-m long Strauss piles and four bored piles with similar length, all installed in a lateritic soil profile. Two prediction methods were evaluated using curves computed from the results of Marchetti’s dilatometer test (DMT) results. The predictive methods using the curves from the DMT showed good agreement with the behavior observed in the pile loading test.
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Acknowledgments
The writers are grateful to Professor John Scott McCartney for a technical review of this paper and to Professor Antônio Belincanta for providing some of the test equipment used in this research.
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Volume 137 • Issue 1 • January 2011
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Received: Jul 23, 2008
Accepted: Jun 30, 2010
Published online: Jul 2, 2010
Published in print: Jan 2011
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