Shaft Friction from Instrumented Displacement Piles in an Uncemented Calcareous Sand
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 138, Issue 11
Abstract
The behavior of displacement piles in uncemented calcareous sand is investigated using field piles instrumented with a sensor that simultaneously records the radial stress and shear stress at specific locations on the pile shafts. These tests are interpreted with the assistance of data from adjacent self-boring pressuremeter tests and from monotonic and cyclic direct shear interface tests performed on reconstituted samples. The existence of extremely low radial stresses on the pile shafts is verified. Although dilation during shear is seen to compensate for such low radial stresses, short-term shaft capacities are much lower than capacities of equivalent piles in siliceous sands. The development of a bonded or welded crust to the pile shaft was seen to be the primary contributor to the setup observed at the test site; this crust forced failure to take place at a sand-sand rather than a sand-steel interface and also gave rise to higher levels of dilation during monotonic loading. The welded sand crust did not, however, give rise to a higher long-term cyclic capacity.
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Acknowledgments
The writers thank Professor Richard Jardine of Imperial College London (ICL) for the loan of the ICL surface stress transducer (SST). The contribution of Daniel Brook, a previous undergraduate student at University of Western Australia, is gratefully acknowledged. The writers are also indebted to Mr. Tuarn Brown for conducting the self-boring pressuremeter tests and to Dr. Diego Ferrara for performing the interface direct shear tests. This research project was funded by an Australian Research Council discovery grant.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 138 • Issue 11 • November 2012
Pages: 1357 - 1368
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© 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Nov 28, 2010
Accepted: Feb 9, 2012
Published online: Feb 11, 2012
Published in print: Nov 1, 2012
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