Static Capacity of Closed-Ended Pipe Pile Driven in Gravelly Sand
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Volume 146, Issue 4
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a static load test (SLT) and two dynamic load tests (DLTs) performed on a closed-ended steel pipe pile (CEP) with an outer diameter (24 in.) driven into a gravelly-sand soil profile. Cone penetration tests (CPTs), standard penetration tests (SPTs), and laboratory tests were performed to fully characterize the soil profile at the test site. The CEP was instrumented with 40 electrical-resistance and 24 vibrating-wire strain gauges. Locked-in residual loads were measured at the end of driving and used to correct the pile capacity components measured during the SLT. Load-settlement curve, load transfer curves, and unit shaft resistance profiles were obtained from the SLT data. Shaft and base resistances obtained from the SLT were compared with estimates from signal-matching analysis of DLT data and CPT-based pile design methods. The signal-matching analysis of the DLT data underpredicted the shaft and base resistance by a factor of two. The CPT-based pile design methods predicted the shaft resistance reasonably well; however, they overpredicted the base resistance by a factor of two. The overestimation by the CPT-based methods can be attributed to the presence of high gravel content near the pile base.
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Acknowledgments
The work presented in this paper was funded by the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) administered by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) and Purdue University through Contract SPR-4040. The support of INDOT and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is gratefully acknowledged. The authors acknowledge the help of Kevin Brower, Yohan Casiraghi, Maria Elisa Muller De Faria, Matheus Santanna Andrade, Brunno Godinho Vieira, Shahedur Rahman, Venkata Abhishek Sakleshpur and Vibhav Bisht for pile instrumentation and load test. The authors are also thankful for the support from Mir Zaheer and Jonathan Paauwe from INDOT for the load test and the exhaustive site investigation; from Jeff Carlson and Patric Tuuk from Superior Construction Company, Inc., for field operations. The authors also thank Travis Coleman from GRL Engineers, Inc., for providing the PDA data and the CAPWAP analysis results.
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