Geotechnical Engineering

DHARM 680 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING tend to provide the group a capacity greater than the sum of the capacities of individual pil ...

DHARM PILE FOUNDATIONS 681 or a block. The limiting value of the spacing for which the group capacities obtained from the two cr ...

DHARM 682 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING guess. These formulae yield efficiency values less than unity, and as such, will not be appli ...

DHARM PILE FOUNDATIONS 683 16.7 SETTLEMENT OF PILES AND PILE GROUPS Settlement of piles and pile groups cannot be evaluated with ...

DHARM 684 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING If the pile penetrates a weak stratum and rests on the top of a firm stratum, the load may be ...

DHARM PILE FOUNDATIONS 685 When the piles are resting on a firmer stratum than the overlying soil (end-bearing piles), the total ...

DHARM 686 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING Terzaghi recommends that the coefficient of sub grade reaction be taken to be constant with r ...

DHARM PILE FOUNDATIONS 687 abutments, tall structures subjected to wind loads and as anchors for wharves, bulkheads and other wa ...

DHARM 688 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING sands. ‘Pile constants’ and ‘foundation constants’ have been assumed by them in their analy- ...

DHARM PILE FOUNDATIONS 689 16.10.5 Inspection and Records Competent engineering inspection and keeping complete records of the d ...

DHARM 690 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING Allowable load on the pile Qap = 500 325 WH s h. (.)+ for steam hammer, H being in metres and ...

DHARM PILE FOUNDATIONS 691 Qg = c′. Nc. Ag + c. Pg. L Here, cohesion c = c′ = 45 kN/m^2 Nc is taken as 9. L = 9 m B = 2s + d = 2 ...

DHARM 692 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING Check for block failure: Frictional resistance of the block = 2.1 × 4 × 6 × 30 = 1512 kN Safe ...

DHARM PILE FOUNDATIONS 693 Block: B = 2s + d = 2 × 0.9 + 0.3 = 2.1 m Pg = 4B = 8.4 m Negative skin friction Ag = B^2 = 4.41 m^2 ...

DHARM 694 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING The Engineering News Formula and Hiley’s formula are the most commonly used dynamic pile form ...

DHARM PILE FOUNDATIONS 695 G.G. Meyerhof: Compaction of Sands and Bearing Capacity of Piles, Jl. of Soil Mechanics and Foundati ...

DHARM 696 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 16.2 Write brief critical notes on the bearing capacity of piles. (S.V.U.—B.E., (R.R.)—Nov. 1 ...

17 .1 Introduction ‘Soil Stabilisation’, in the broadest sense, refers to the procedures employed with a view to altering one or ...

DHARM 698 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING Broadly speaking, soil stabilisation procedures may be brought under the following two heads: ...

DHARM SOIL STABILISATION 699 Change of gradation—addition or removal of soil particles The engineering behaviour of a soil depen ...