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Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

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Drainage<br />

layer<br />

8.0 m<br />

6.0 m<br />

Fill<br />

1.0 m dia RC piles<br />

Key<br />

13.0 m<br />

5.0 m<br />

Short term<br />

Long term<br />

Abutment wall<br />

GL<br />

Soft<br />

clay<br />

Dense<br />

s<strong>and</strong><br />

(a)<br />

Depth (m)<br />

(b)<br />

Depth below soft clay surface (m)<br />

Miscellaneous piling problems 459<br />

Figure 9.18 Lateral pressure distribution on full height bridge abutment supported by two rows<br />

of piles driven through soft clay into dense s<strong>and</strong> (a) deflection (b) bending moments<br />

(after Springman et al. (9.25) ). Crown copyright 1995. Reproduced by permission of HM<br />

Stationery Office.<br />

Measurements made in the centrifuge model of pile head deflections, bending moments,<br />

<strong>and</strong> deduced horizontal soil pressures on the surfaces of the central pile of the three-pile row<br />

furthest from the embankment are shown in Figure 9.18. They show a marked difference in<br />

the magnitude of deflection <strong>and</strong> pressure between the short-term (end of construction) <strong>and</strong><br />

long-term (125 weeks after end of construction) loading periods. The pressure on the pile<br />

surface within the soft clay was negative at the end of construction as a result of the large<br />

deflections causing the pile to pull away from the soil. With time the clay closed-up against the<br />

5.0<br />

10.0<br />

15.0<br />

0<br />

5.0<br />

10.0<br />

15.0<br />

–100 0<br />

Deduced pressure (kN/m 2 )<br />

100 200 300 400 500<br />

Pressure<br />

Deflection<br />

20.0<br />

–10 –5 0 5 10 15<br />

Bending moment (MN/m)<br />

Pressure<br />

20.0<br />

–50 0 50 100 150 200<br />

Deflection (mm)

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