Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

The magnitude of the strain can range from as much as plus or minus 0.8% of the overburden thickness above shallow workings to 0 ...

lateral movements as the rock strata adjust themselves to their equilibrium position. A bentonite or bitumen infill to seal the ...

the Coal Measures are overlying the partly worked seam they may form a bridge over the cavities such that the collapse of the we ...

When inspecting the geological conditions in the shafts full precautions should be taken against the collapse of the walls or ba ...

in layers in the soil. The latter formation, referred to by Tsytovich as ‘recurrent vein ice’, frequently occupies some 50% of t ...

frozen layer. When the surface heave was 55 mm the maximum swelling pressures of 54 to 91 kN/m^2 occurred at the base of the fro ...

ground due to the re-packing and re-crystallization of ice under pressure and the migration of unfrozen water. Uplift forces on ...

natural ‘freeze-back’around the pile. Korhonen and Orchino(9.19)point out that freezing of the concrete need not be the sole rea ...

earthmoving operations. It is possible to install the piling for piers of bridges with spill-through abutments at the toe of the ...

bridge designers. Hambly(9.22)states that foundations for simply supported deck bridges are frequently designed for differential ...

456 Miscellaneous piling problems Figure 9.15Piling for bridges with spill-through abutments (a) Bank seat carried by piles driv ...

wing walls. The abutment is only partially restrained from moving forward under the influence of the retained soil. A small degr ...

horizontal movement is shear resistance between the soft clay and the underside of the pile cap and at the interface between the ...

Measurements made in the centrifuge model of pile head deflections, bending moments, and deduced horizontal soil pressures on th ...

pile causing a small positive pressure to develop. Generally, the measurements on the model piles showed increases in maximum be ...

and the mean horizontal pressure pmare shown in Figure 9.17. Methods of calculating pm and the height huare described by Springm ...

pis the surcharge pressure, and is the effective angle of shearing resistance of the soil applying pressure to the pile. It sh ...

9.6 Piled foundations for over-water bridges 9.6.1 Selection of pile type Because of the desirability of avoiding different type ...

A notable example of precast concrete piling for bridge works is the over-water sections of the 25 km causeway between Saudi Ara ...

Figure 9.23Drilling equipment for sinking 3.5 m ODprecast concrete cylinder piles, Saudi Arabia–Bahrain Causeway. ...