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Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

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500 Ground investigations, contracts <strong>and</strong> pile testing<br />

(a)<br />

Levels conjectured<br />

from bore holes<br />

A & B<br />

(b)<br />

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4<br />

A<br />

B<br />

A<br />

Weak<br />

rock<br />

Planned base<br />

level of piles<br />

Weak rock<br />

(c) Decomposed rock (d)<br />

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4<br />

A<br />

B<br />

A B<br />

Level of hard rock<br />

conjectured from<br />

bore holes A <strong>and</strong> B<br />

Hard rock<br />

Hard rock<br />

Hard rock<br />

<strong>Pile</strong> base level<br />

as installed<br />

(or other strong relatively incompressible material) <strong>and</strong> the overburden. Also there must be<br />

adequate correlation with the control boreholes.<br />

Geophysical methods are not usually economical for small site areas, but where the<br />

overburden is soft or loose, either uncased wash probings or continuous dynamic cone<br />

penetration tests (see Section 11.1.4) are cheap <strong>and</strong> reliable methods of interpolating ground<br />

conditions between widely spaced cable percussion boreholes.<br />

Information on groundwater conditions is vital to the successful installation of driven <strong>and</strong><br />

cast-in-place <strong>and</strong> bored <strong>and</strong> cast-in-place piles. The problems of installing these pile types in<br />

water-bearing soils <strong>and</strong> rocks are discussed in Sections 3.4.8 <strong>and</strong> 3.4.9. St<strong>and</strong>pipes or piezometers<br />

should be installed in selected boreholes for long-term observations of the fluctuation in<br />

groundwater levels. Simple forms of in-situ permeability tests are described in Section 11.1.4.<br />

B<br />

Actual level of<br />

hard rock<br />

Figure 11.2 Misinterpretation of borehole information (a) Horizontal stratification interpreted by<br />

interpolation between boreholes A <strong>and</strong> B. <strong>Pile</strong>s 1 to 4 planned to have uniform base level<br />

(b) Actual stratification revealed by drilling boreholes for piles 1, 3, <strong>and</strong> 4, showing base<br />

level required by dipping strata (c) Uniform level of interface between decomposed rock<br />

<strong>and</strong> hard rock interpreted by interpolation between boreholes A <strong>and</strong> B. <strong>Pile</strong>s 1 to 4 planned<br />

to have uniform base level (d) Actual profile of hard rock surface.

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