Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

66 Types of pile Where timber or steel piles are pitched and driven at the bottom of drilled-in tubes, the operation of removing ...

Types of pile 67 (3) Construction operations not affected by groundwater (4) Projection above ground level advantageous to marin ...

68 Types of pile (7) Cannot be used in river or marine structures without special adaptation (8) Cannot be driven with very larg ...

Types of pile 69 can withstand fairly hard driving and it is resistant to attack by aggressive substances in the soil, or in sea ...

70 Types of pile 2.6 BRE Special Digest 1: 2005, Concrete in aggressive ground, Building Research Establishment, Watford, 2005. ...

Chapter 3 Piling equipment and methods There was a world-wide increase in the construction of heavy foundations in the period fr ...

penetrations in difficult environmental conditions where ground investigations have been limited. This has resulted in on-the-jo ...

Piling equipment and methods 73 A range of rigs (with leader extensions as available) are shown in the following table: Maker Ty ...

3.1.2 Crane-supported leaders Although the hydraulic piling rig with its base frame and leaders supported by a stayed mast provi ...

an optional 35oleader rotation (Figure 3.3). In ‘fixed extended’arrangements, the leaders extend above the top of the jib with a ...

Hangingand swinging leadersare suspended from the top of the crane jib with a head block which allows free movement to fit over ...

Figure 3.4Liebherr LRH 400 48 m long swinging leader on HS 885 HD crane (courtesy Liebherr Great Britain Ltd). Figure 3.5US styl ...

78 Piling equipment and methods Lifting point Rollers U.B bed frame Tubular raking stays Lifting points Tubular raking struts Tw ...

there is a greater risk, especially with raking piles, of the hammer losing its alignment with the pile during driving than in t ...

Three rows of five 356368 mm H-piles were pitched into the guides and were driven by a Delmag D22 hammer. Guides can be used in ...

Piling equipment and methods 81 Single-acting hammer Piling frame Second-stage driving completed Leg guides Diesel hammer Ready ...

have masses ranging from 8.6 to 125 tonne with a maximum stroke of 1.75 m. They are fully automatic with infinitely variable str ...

Steam or air supply Hollow piston rod Lifting lug Ram Guides for engaging leaders Figure 3.11BSP International Foundations Ltd s ...

Some free-fall hammers, for example, the Menck MHF series and the BSP CX series, have the option of additional acceleration by p ...

Underwater hydraulic hammerswere developed specially for driving piles in deep water locations. The Menck MHU double-acting hamm ...