Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

to the stirrups in the beams. If the main steel in ground beams or ground floor slabs
must extend across the piles it should be carried above the pile heads as shown in
Figure 7.16a, or at the sides of the projecting piles with ample spaces to allow for
misalignment (Figure 7.16b).

7.10 References

7.1 GLANVILLE,W. G., GRIME, G., and DAVIES, W. W. The behaviour of reinforced concrete piles during
driving, Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. 1, 1935, p. 150.
7.2 SMITH, E. A. L. Pile driving analysis by the wave equation, Journal of the Soil Mechanics Division,
American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 86, No. SM4, 1960, pp. 35–61.
7.3 GOBLE, G. G., RAUSCHE, F., and LIKINS, G. E. Jr, The analysis of pile driving – A state of art,
Proceedings of the International Seminar on the Appplication of Stress Wave Theory on Piles,
Stockhoem, 1980, A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1981.
7.4 GOBLE, G. G. and RAUSCHE, F. Pile driveability calculations by CAPWAP, Proceedings of the
Conference on Numerical Methods in Offshore Piling.Institution of Civil Engineers, London,

1979. pp. 29–36.

396 Structural design of piles and pile groups

Construction joint

Bonding

bars

Ground beam

Pile cap

Ground floor slab

Distance between these pairs

of bars to allow for deviation

in position of pile head

(Top steel only shown)

(a)

(b)

Figure 7.16Arrangement of reinforcing steel in ground beams and ground floor slabs.