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Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

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

Because buoyancy is a destabilizing factor, EC7 (Clause 2.4.7.4) requires verification of<br />

stability by the UPL criteria as given by the equation:<br />

Vdstd � Gstbd � Rd (6.3a)<br />

where<br />

Vdstd � Gdstd � Qdstd <strong>and</strong><br />

(6.4)<br />

V dstd � design value of the permanent destabilizing vertical action on the substructure<br />

G stbd � design value of the permanent stabilizing vertical actions<br />

G dstd � design value of the permanent destabilizing actions<br />

Q dstd � design values of the variable actions<br />

R d � any additional resistance to uplift<br />

R d � considered as a permanent vertical action.<br />

The partial factors for actions for the ultimate limit state (UPL) verification are set out in<br />

Annex A of EC7 as shown in Table 6.1. For verification of the uplift resistances of the soil<br />

surrounding the block, <strong>and</strong> of the pull-out resistances of the piles in the group, where<br />

derived by calculations using soil parameters the partial factors shown in Table 6.2 are used.<br />

6.2.3 <strong>Pile</strong>s with base enlargements<br />

When bored piles are constructed in clay soils, base enlargements can be formed to anchor<br />

the piles against uplift. The enlargements are made by the belling tools described in<br />

Table 6.1 Partial factors for actions (� f) for uplift<br />

limit-state (UPL) verifications<br />

Action Symbol Value<br />

Permanent<br />

Unfavourable a � Gdst 1.0<br />

Favourable b � Gstb 0.9<br />

Variable<br />

Unfavourable a � Qdst 1.5<br />

Notes<br />

a denotes destabilizing.<br />

b denotes stabilizing.<br />

Table 6.2 Partial factors for soil parameters <strong>and</strong><br />

resistances<br />

Soil parameter Symbol Values<br />

Angle of shearing resistance a � �� 1.25<br />

Effective cohesion � c� 1.25<br />

Undrained shear strength � cu 1.40<br />

Tensile pile resistance � st 1.40<br />

Anchorage resistance � a 1.40<br />

Note<br />

a This value is applied to tan ��.<br />

The factors in Tables 6.1 <strong>and</strong> 6.2 may be modified when<br />

the British National Annex is published.

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