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2.2.6 Working stresses for steel piles

BS8004 requires steel for piles to conform to BS4360 Grades 43A, 50B, ‘or other grades
to the approval of the engineer’. The code limits the compression working stresses on
tubular, box, and H-section piles, in steel conforming to BS4360, to 30% of yield strength

Welds

M.S. plate

shoe

Tube or box pile

(a)

(b)

H-pile

‘Oslo’ point

Reinforcing plate

Plate and web

slotted to receive

point

Figure 2.25Shoes for steel piles (a) Flat plate shoe for tubular or box pile (b) ‘Oslo’ point for
H-section pile.

Welds

Weld

(a) (b)

Guide

Unequal

angles

Figure 2.26Strengthening toe of H-section pile (a) Welded-on steel angles (b) Pruyn Point (Associated
Pile and Fitting Corporation).