Load Testing of a Closed-Ended Pipe Pile Driven in Multilayered Soil
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Abstract
Piles are often driven in multilayered soil profiles. The accurate prediction of the ultimate bearing capacity of piles driven in mixed soil is more challenging than that of piles driven in either clay or sand because the mechanical behavior of these soils is better known. In order to study the behavior of closed-ended pipe piles driven into multilayered soil profiles, fully instrumented static and dynamic axial load tests were performed on three piles. One of these piles was tested dynamically and statically. A second pile served as reaction pile in the static load test and was tested dynamically. A third pile was tested dynamically. The base of each pile was embedded slightly in a very dense nonplastic silt layer overlying a clay layer. In this paper, results of these pile load tests are presented, and the lessons learned from the interpretation of the test data are discussed. A comparison is made of the ultimate base and limit shaft resistances measured in the pile load tests with corresponding values predicted from in situ test-based and soil property-based design methods.
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Acknowledgments
The pile load tests presented in this paper were partially funded by the Indiana Department of Transportation. This support is greatly appreciated. The writers acknowledge Kwangkyun Kim, Hoyoung Seo, lrem Zeynep Yildirim, Grace Abou-Jaoude, and Mir Zaheer for assisting with the laboratory and pile load tests.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 135 • Issue 4 • April 2009
Pages: 463 - 473
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Received: Jul 16, 2007
Accepted: Jun 26, 2008
Published online: Apr 1, 2009
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