Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

Subject index 551

Soilex pile 44
sonic logging 535– 6
spacing of piles 44, 249, 264
specifications: anchorages 318; piling 512;
timber preservation 481
spiral welding 38
splicing piles 20, 37, 385
standard penetration tests: related to values
165; related to deformation modulus 263;
techniques for 503
static cone penetration test: related to values
165; related to base resistance 176–80,
183 – 6; related to compressibility of soils
268 – 72; related to shaft friction 177;
techniques for 503
Statnamic tests 527
steel: for anchors 318–20, 325; designations
47 – 9; for piles 48–9; reinforcing see
reinforcement
steel piles: advantages of 69; Arbed 38; box
38; cathodic protection of 495–6; concrete
filling of 35, 54–6; connectors for 37, 43;
corrosion of 492–4; Corus 48; driving of
125 – 6; Frodingham (obsolete) 38; Hoesch
38, 43; H-section 39; Krupp 38; Larssen
(obsolete) 38; for marine structures 48, 416,
495; monopile 82; Monotube 43; MV 39;
painting of 495–6; Peine 38, 43; shoes for
45 – 7; splicing of 385; TaperTube 54; tubular
36 – 45; Union 44; welding of 36–42, 386–7,
419, 443; withdrawable tube seedriven and
cast-in-place piles; working stresses on
47 – 8, 56– 7
stress grades: steel 49; timber 16– 17
stress wave theory 370– 80
sulphate (and sulphuric acid) attack 478,
487 – 90
sulphate resisting cement 27, 489– 90
supersulphated cement 490
surcharge loading on pile groups 454–8, 460– 2

tapered piles, description of 44
TaperTube pile 54
temporary compression 516
thermal piles 453
timber piles: damage to 17–19; driving of
15 – 17, 124; durability of 479–86; for fenders
415 – 16, 469; preservation of 14, 479–86,
514; shoes for 16; splicing of 18–19;
working stresses on 16

time effects: in clays 163–4; in coarse-grained

soils 188; on soil plugging 183

tolerances, positional 136, 284, 377, 391

tremie concreting 60, 133

trestle guides 78, 454

tripod rigs 134

Tubex piles 54, 473

tubular piles: descriptions of 36–8; driving

caps for 102; for marine structures 406, 413,

419 – 22; plugging of 155–8, 173–4; steel,

cleaning out 126– 7

ultimate limit state 6, 143, 160, 196, 212, 309,

312, 535

ultimate resistance: to compressive loads 140;

to lateral loads 329–34; of piles in groups

243, 311; to uplift loads 308– 11

underpinning with piles 437; with jacked

piers 441

under-reamed piles 59, 111, 163, 193

underwater concreting 62, 121, 133

underwater hammers 85, 421

unconfined compression strength 503

unloading effects 141, 179–80, 520

uplift on piles: due to frost action 305,

449 – 52; due to swelling clays 305–6,

394 – 5; on pile groups 310; resistance to

308 – 27

vane tests 502

vibratory pile hammers 92– 5

Vibrex pile 53

Vibro pile 54

vibro-concrete column 95

vibro-replacement 93

void index 182

wave forces 407– 11

weathering grades 209– 10

welding 36–8, 386; tests 514

winches, piling 72, 108

wind forces 307, 413– 14

wind turbines 82, 417

winged piles 41, 250

working load, specified 510, 521

working stresses: on bored and cast-in-place

piles 23, 63; on driven and cast-in-place

piles 23, 56, 172; on shell piles 54; on

steel piles 47–8; specified 510; on timber

piles 16