WAVE EQUATION ANALYSIS OF FULL-SCALE PILES USING MEASURED FIELD DATA

A PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING SOIL DAMPING CONSTANTS FOR USE IN WAVE EQUATION ANALYSES IS PRESENTED. FIELD DATA CONSISTING OF STATIC BEARING CAPACITY AND STATIC AND DYNAMIC PILE FORCES, OBTAINED FROM TWO FULL-SCALE TEST PILES IN CLAY AND ONE IN SAND, ARE CORRELATED WITH THE PREDICTED RESULTS OBTAINED FROM WAVE EQUATION ANALYSIS. THIRTY-SEVEN ADDITIONAL NON-INSTRUMENTED FULL-SCALE TEST PILES ARE ANALYZED. SOIL DAMPING CONSTANTS ARE DETERMINED ACCORDING TO SOIL TYPE AND ARE SHOWN TO BE VALID FOR BOTH INITIAL DRIVING AND REDRIVING AT A LATER DATE. /FHWA/

• Corporate Authors:

  Texas State Department of Highways & Public Transp

  11th and Brazos Streets
  Austin, TX  United States  78701

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 1600 E Lamar Boulevard
  Arlington, TX  United States  76011

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Foye, R
  • Hirsch, T J
  • Bartoskewitz, R
  • Coyle, H
• Publication Date: 1972-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 260 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bearing capacity; Clay; Damping (Physics); Pile driving; Sand; Soils; Test piles; Wave equations
• Old TRIS Terms: Soil bearing capacity; Wave equation formula
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00230773
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: No 125-7 Res Rept
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 19 1973 12:00AM