LABORATORY TESTS ON MODEL PILED RAFT FOUNDATIONS

Laboratory tests were performed on four model piled raft foundations in a pot filled with over-consolidated clay. In these experiments a concentrated load or pattern of loads was applied to a foundation, and settlements and strains were measured for 50 min before adding more load. The experimental load-settlement and load-moment curves were compared with the results of theoretical calculations using values of Young's modulus for the clay back-figured from results for similar tests on single piles and small rigid circular rafts. The method of analysis for piled raft foundations which was used to obtain the theoretical results is described. In this method the raft is represented as a thin plate on piles and an elastic continuum. Nonlinear effets such as pile or soil bearing failure and uplift of the raft can be treated by this method of analysis. (Authors)

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• Authors:
  • Wiesner, T J
  • Brown, P T
• Publication Date: 1980-7

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 767-783
• Serial:
  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Volume: 106
  • Issue Number: GT7
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 1090-0241
  • Serial URL: http://ojps.aip.org/gto

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bearing capacity; Clay; Failure; Loads; Mat foundations; Nonlinear systems; Overconsolidation; Piles (Supports); Settlement (Structures)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Nonlinearity
• Old TRIS Terms: Load settlement
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; I42: Soil Mechanics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00319159
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: ASCE 15576
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 19 1981 12:00AM