Prediction of Ground Movements due to Pile Driving in Clay
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 127, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper evaluates theoretical predictions of ground movements caused by the installation of driven (or jacked) piles in clay. The predictions are based on an approximate analysis framework referred to as the shallow strain path method that simulates undrained pile penetration from the stress-free ground surface. Large strain conditions close to the pile are solved numerically, and closed-form analytical expressions are obtained from small strain approximations at points further away. These results show that, for closed-ended cylindrical piles of radius R and embedment L, the normalized displacements δL/R2 are functions of their dimensionless position x/L. In contrast, for a planar sheet pile or unplugged open-ended pile, the far-field soil displacements at x/L depend only on the wall thickness w; i.e., δ/w = f[x/L]. The proposed analyses show favorable agreement with data from a variety of available sources including field measurements of (1) building movements caused by installation of large pile groups; (2) uplift of a pile caused by driving of an adjacent pile within a group; and (3) spatial distributions of ground movements caused by installation of a single pile (both cylindrical closed-ended and sheet pile wall), including a particularly detailed set of measurements in a large laboratory calibration chamber. The comparisons show that the proposed analysis is capable of reliably predicting the deformations within the soil mass but generally underestimates the vertical heave measured at the ground surface. Further investigation suggests that this discrepancy may be related to the occurrence of radial cracks observed at the ground surface during pile installation and is consistent with tensile horizontal strains computed in the shallow strain path method analyses.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 127 • Issue 1 • January 2001
Pages: 55 - 66
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Received: Feb 9, 2000
Published online: Jan 1, 2001
Published in print: Jan 2001
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