EVALUATION OF PILE LOADING TESTS
AUSWERTUNG VON PFAHLPROBEBELASTUNGEN
LOADING TESTS ON PILES GENERALLY SERVE THE MAIN PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING THAT THE FOUNDATION CAN CARRY THE LOADS IMPOSED ON IT WITHOUT RISK OF FAILURE OR INJURIOUS SETTLEMENTS. THE DEVELOPMENT IN RECENT TIMES OF MORE SOPHISTICATED STRUCTURES WHICH ARE MORE SENSITIVE TO NON-UNIFORM SETTLEMENTS AND ROTATIONS, HAS RESULTED IN THE URGENT NECESSITY OF INVESTIGATING THE LOAD-SETTLEMENT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE WORKING LOAD RANGE. THE PAPER ANALYSES THE EXPERIENCES GAINED WITH VARIOUS LOADING TESTS AND SUGGESTS A METHOD FOR THE UNIFORM MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION OF THE TEST RESULTS. THE SECOND PART OF THE ARTICLE SHOWS A SIMPLE MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP, WITH THE AID OF WHICH ANY LOAD-SETTLEMENT GRAPH MAY BE APPROXIMATED WITH ACCEPTABLE ACCURACY. THIS EQUATION ALLOWS THE SOLUTION OF COMPLEX PROBLEMS INVOLVING THE INTERACTION OF LOADS AND FOUNDATION. THE COVERING ABSTRACT FOR THE CONFERENCE IS IRRD NO 306088.
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Authors:
- VARGA, L
- SZAKACS, G Y
- Publication Date: 1976-3
Language
- German
Media Info
- Pagination: 591-6
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Serial:
- SECHSTE EUROPAEISCHE KONFERENZ FUER BODENMECHANIK UND GRUNDBAU
- Volume: 1.2
- Publisher: INSTITUT FUER GRUNDBAU UND BODENMECHANIK, TU WIEN
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Conferences; Ground settlement; Loads; Mathematical models; Measurement; Support piles; Tests
- ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 5567: Load; 6473: Mathematical model; 6136: Measurement; 3399: Pile; 5792: Settlement; 6255: Test
- Subject Areas: I42: Soil Mechanics;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01301913
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Nov 21 2010 8:26AM