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Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

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(a)<br />

Tie rod<br />

Wholly<br />

compression<br />

Wholly tension<br />

(b)<br />

Chimney<br />

Sheet-piling<br />

<strong>Pile</strong>s to resist uplift <strong>and</strong> lateral loading 307<br />

Alternating<br />

tension <strong>and</strong><br />

compression<br />

obtained from a simple triangle of forces as shown. Where lateral forces are transient in<br />

character, for example, for wind loadings, they may be permitted to be carried wholly or<br />

partly by the pile cap where this is bearing on the ground (see Section 7.8). If raking piles<br />

are installed in fill or compressible soil which is settling under its own weight or under a<br />

surcharge pressure, considerable bending stresses can be induced in the piles, requiring a<br />

high moment of resistance to withst<strong>and</strong> the combined axial <strong>and</strong> bending stresses as<br />

discussed in Section 6.4.<br />

Wind<br />

(c)<br />

Braking <strong>and</strong><br />

acceleration<br />

loads<br />

Bridge pier<br />

Figure 6.3 Raking piles to resist overturning forces. (a) <strong>Pile</strong>d anchorage to tie rods restraining<br />

sheet-piled retaining wall (b) Raking piles to withst<strong>and</strong> wind forces on chimney (c) Raking<br />

piles to withst<strong>and</strong> traction forces from vehicles on bridge.<br />

Bollard<br />

Figure 6.4 Raking <strong>and</strong> vertical piles in breasting dolphin.<br />

Fender

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