Abstract
In order to better understand the response of driven, closed-ended, pipe piles subjected to axial loads and examine the performance of existing pile design methods, static and dynamic load tests were performed on a closed-ended steel pipe pile driven in a multilayered soil profile. The test pile was fully instrumented with electrical-resistance and vibrating-wire strain gauges, which enabled the determination of residual loads before sensors were reset and load-transfer curves for all loads applied at the pile head during the static load test. The ultimate base and limit shaft resistances of the test pile measured in the static load test and estimated from dynamic load tests are compared with estimates made using several cone penetration test-based (CPT-based) and property-based pile design methods. Two additional case histories are used to verify these design methods, most of which produce satisfactory estimates of pile resistance.
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Acknowledgments
The pile load test presented in this paper was partially funded by the Indiana Department of Transportation. This support is greatly appreciated. The authors acknowledge the help of Eshan Ganju, Jeehee Lim, Yanfei Ren, and Yanbei Zhang for assisting with the pile instrumentation and data acquisition during the load test. The authors also are thankful for the work done in connection with the load test by Pete Hall from Primco Inc. and Travis Coleman from GRL Engineers, Inc., as well as in connection with the CPT tests performed by Jonathan Paauwe from the Indiana Department of Transportation.
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Received: Sep 30, 2015
Accepted: Jun 7, 2016
Published online: Sep 9, 2016
Discussion open until: Feb 9, 2017
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