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Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

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Piling equipment <strong>and</strong> methods 129<br />

Figure 3.40 Defective shaft of bored pile caused by collapse of clay after lifting casing.<br />

to the walls of the borehole or to the lining tubes should be cleaned off. The reinforcing cage<br />

can then be placed <strong>and</strong> concreting commenced. The time interval between the final<br />

cleaning-up <strong>and</strong> placing concrete should not exceed 6 hours. If there is any appreciable<br />

delay the depth of the pile bottom should be checked against the measured drilled depth before<br />

placing the concrete to ensure that no soil has fallen into the hole. If the reinforcing cage<br />

extends only part-way down the hole it should be suspended from the top of the pile shaft<br />

before commencing to place the concrete.<br />

The concrete used in the pile base <strong>and</strong> shaft should be easily workable with a slump of<br />

100 to 180 mm as recommended in BS 1536. Such a mix is self-compacting <strong>and</strong> does not

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