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Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

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

the soft clay), � 1 � 0.75 <strong>and</strong> � 0 � 0.92. Therefore<br />

immediate settlement �<br />

From Figure 5.13 the average vertical stress at the centre of a layer of thickness 2B is<br />

0.3 � 194 � 58 kN/m2 .<br />

The depth factor �d for D/�LB � 0.62 is 0.81 <strong>and</strong> the geological factor �g is 0.5.<br />

Therefore, from equations 5.23 <strong>and</strong> 5.24<br />

Part of the imposed loading will not be sustained <strong>and</strong> will not contribute to the long-term<br />

settlement. Thus the total settlement under the vertical load of 30 000 kN will probably<br />

not exceed 30 mm. It is necessary to estimate the amount of tilting which would occur<br />

under sustained wind pressure, i.e. the immediate settlement induced by the horizontal wind<br />

force of 1500 kN producing a pressure under the combined vertical <strong>and</strong> horizontal<br />

loading of 30000/(13 � 5.54) � 416 kN/m on the equivalent raft caused by the eccentric<br />

2<br />

loading. For L/B � 13/5.54 � 2.3, H/B ��<strong>and</strong> D/B � 7.7/5.54 � 1.4, � 1 � 1.0 <strong>and</strong> � 0 � 0.9<br />

giving<br />

immediate settlement �<br />

Of this amount 16 mm is due to vertical loading only, giving a tilt of 10 mm due to wind<br />

loading. A movement of this order would have a negligible effect on the stability of the tower.<br />

The horizontal force on each pile if no wind load is carried by the pile cap is<br />

1500/22 � 68 kN. A pile 1 metre in diameter can carry this load without excessive deflection<br />

(see Example 6.4).<br />

Example 6.8<br />

Pressuremeter tests made at intervals of depth in a highly weathered weak broken siltstone<br />

gave the following parameters:<br />

Pressuremeter modulus � E m � 30 MN/m 2<br />

Limit pressure � p l � 1.8 MN/m 2<br />

Creep pressure � p f � 0.8 MN/m 2<br />

The above values were reasonably constant with depth. Draw the deflection curve for a<br />

horizontal load applied to the head of a 750 mm pile at the ground surface up to the ultimate<br />

load, <strong>and</strong> obtain the deflection for a horizontal load of half the ultimate.<br />

Moment of inertia of uncracked pile �<br />

0.75 � 0.92 � 194 � 11.2 � 1000<br />

� 19 mm<br />

80 � 1000<br />

�c � 0.5 � 0.81 � 0.05 � 58 � 2 � 11.2 � 1 000<br />

� 26 mm<br />

1000<br />

1.0 � 0.9 � 416 � 5.54 � 1000<br />

� 26 mm<br />

80 � 1000<br />

� � 0.754<br />

64<br />

� 0.0155 m 4

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