Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

550 Subject index
Pali Radice piles 66, 440
partial factors 7, 143, 145–50, 192, 219,
272, 310–2
partial resistance factors 148
Peine piles 38, 43
Penpile 58
permafrost 449–53
permeability tests 506–7
plate bearing tests 194, 211, 252–3, 506–7
platforms, petroleum production see marine
structures
plugging: with concrete 52, 127, 156, 159, 422;
with soil 158, 172–3, 183, 422
point load test 507
Poisson’s ratio 196, 255–8, 274–5
Portland cement 27, 318, 487, 489–91
positional tolerance 136, 284, 377, 391
power augers 106, 126, 135
precast concrete piles: breakage of 31, 34;
concreting of 20, 28–31; cracks in 21, 25,
29, 31; driving of 125; driving stresses on
379–82; Hercules pile 32; jointed types
31–4; lengthening of 385–6; lifting of
376–8; prestressed 19–21, 25; reinforcement
of 19, 21–5; shoes for 27; structural design
of 375–86; working stresses on 19–21, 172
Prescore pile 33
press-in drivers 100, 125
pressure distribution: beneath pile groups 3,
246; lateral 458–9
pressuremeter 146, 170, 185, 211, 253, 264,
346–50, 505; cone 506
prestressed concrete piles: advantages of 25;
casting of 25, 28–9; cylindrical 31, 33;
for marine structures 416; structural design
of 376
pretest piles 442
Pruyn point 45
pyrites 487
radial stress 159, 182, 184, 187
raking piles: bending of 353; for bridges
456–7; calculating loading on 353–6;
installation of 135–6; for marine structures
398–9, 403; resistance to lateral loads of
306–8
Raymond piles (obsolete) see TaperTube pile
RB pile 32
redistribution of load: on pile shafts 244; in
piles group 244
regulations: Construction (Design and
Management) 512; Health and Safety 59,
512; noise control 80, 97, 454; pollution
control 121, 514
reinforcement: for bored and cast-in-place piles
59–61; for driven and cast-in-place piles 52–6;
for micropiles 66; for precast concrete piles
19, 21–5, 376–8
replacement piles see Bored and cast-in-place
piles
responsibilities, contractual 7, 9, 498, 508–9
reuse of piles 69, 537
reverse circulation drilling 116–18, 120, 126,
134, 175, 453
rock: anchoring piles to 315–27; base resistance
in 196–211; deformation moduli of 273–5;
drilled piles in 65; ground investigations in
502; quality designation (RQD) 199–201,
206, 502; settlement of piles in 211–12,
273–6; shaft friction on piles in 198–211
Rockwell connector see Frank’s connector
rotary auger 12, 106, 111, 207, 439
rotary core drilling 499, 501–2
rotary displacement piles: Atlas piles 56; screw
piles 56, 58, 132, 445
rotary table 65, 106–9, 114–16
roughness factor 208, 276
safety factors 3, 140, 164, 177, 192–5, 218,
311, 335, 418
sampling soils 501, 507
sand see coarse-grained soils
scour, effects of 180, 418, 463–8
screw piles 58; Atlas 56; ScrewSol 56
secant piles 137, 443
seismic logging 499, 535
selection: of pile type 11–13; of piling
hammer 95–7
serviceability limit state 6, 144, 151, 192, 326
set of piles 4, 17, 379–80, 456, 513–17
setting out 513
settlement: of pile groups 250–63; of single
piles 192–6
shaft friction: on bored and cast-in-place piles
160–3; in coarse-grained soils 169, 171–5;
on driven and cast-in-place piles 159–60,
174; on driven piles 151–2, 156–8; in finegrained
soils 151–64; on grouted piles 124;
in layered soils 190–1; negative (skin)
212–20; observations of 526–7; in rock
198–211
shape factor 165, 173, 246, 267, 313–14,
319, 415
shear connectors 318–19
sheathing 320, 490
shell piles: description of 54–6; installation of
127; tapered 44
shoes: for casing 113; for concrete piles 27; for
steel piles 45–7; for timber piles 16
single-acting hammers 81–9, 104, 124–5
small displacement piles 10, 34, 92, 158,
203, 281