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Jan 1950
Effect of Driving Piles into Soft Clay
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VIEW THE REPLYAuthors: A. E. Cummings, M.ASCE, G. O. Kerkhoff, AM.ASCE, and R. B. Peck, AM.ASCEAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 115, Issue 1
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This paper describes the results of field and laboratory tests made to determine the extent of the disturbance produced by driving piles into a soft, glacial, lake clay deposit in Detroit, Mich. The results indicate that the natural structure of the clay was appreciably disturbed close to the piles, but that the amount of disturbance did not approach that of complete remolding in the laboratory. At a distance of about two times the diameter of the pile, the clay within a pile group was disturbed only a negligible amount. The process of consolidation initiated by the disturbance was not of a type that would cause settlement of the ground surface.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 115 • Issue 1 • January 1950
Pages: 275 - 285
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© 1950 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1950
Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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A. E. Cummings, M.ASCE
Director of Research, Raymond Concrete Pile Co., New York, N. Y.
G. O. Kerkhoff, AM.ASCE
Asst. Engr. of Soils, Michigan State Highway Testing Laboratory, Univ. of Michigan, and Asst. Prof. of Civ. Eng., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
R. B. Peck, AM.ASCE
Research Prof., Soil Mechanics, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
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