Interaction between Laterally Loaded Pile and Surrounding Soil
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Abstract
A fully instrumented experiment was conducted to investigate the soil-structure interaction of single short, stiff laterally loaded piles. A hollow steel pipe pile with a diameter of 102 mm, a thickness of 6.4 mm, and a length of 1.524 m was installed in well-graded sand and subjected to increasing lateral load. The pile and surrounding soil were fully instrumented using advanced sensors, including flexible shape acceleration arrays, thin tactile pressure sheets, and in-soil null pressure sensors. The sensors attached to the pile were used to develop the compressive soil-pile interaction pressures and the lateral displacement along the pile length. The tactile pressure sheet sensors provided the soil-pile interaction compressive pressures on the circumference of the pile at a specific depth and along the length of the pile. The measured soil-pile interaction compressive pressures combined with the measured lateral displacement along the pile length were used to develop the soil-pile interaction force-displacement relationships ( curves) using direct measurements. In addition, the in-soil null pressure sensor measurements were used to develop the distribution of horizontal stress changes around the pile as the lateral pile displacement increased. When appropriate, the measured results were compared with data and methods available in the literature.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division of the National Science Foundation (No. 0820640). The research team would like acknowledge the efforts of several undergraduate students, including Pierre Bick from Lehigh University and Matthew O’Loughlin and Martin Anderson from Lafayette College. The authors would also like to acknowledge the help of Edward Tomlinson, instrumentation and system specialist at Lehigh University’s Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS) Engineering Research Center.
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Volume 141 • Issue 4 • April 2015
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Received: Mar 10, 2014
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Published online: Dec 8, 2014
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