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Ruwan A. Rajapakse ... 378 pages - Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 2nd edition (February, 2016) - Language: English - AmazonSIN: B01C74LU96.

Pile Design and Construction Rules of Thumb presents Geotechnical and Civil Engineers a comprehensive coverage of Pile Foundation related theory and practice. Based on the author’s experience as a PE, the book brings concise theory and extensive calculations, examples and case studies that can be easily applied by professional in their day-to-day challenges. In its first part, the book covers the fundamentals of Pile Selection: Soil investigation, condition, pile types and how to choose them. In the second part it addresses the Design of Pile Foundations, including different types of soils, pile groups, pile settlement and pile design in rock. Next, the most extensive part covers Design Strategies and contains chapters on loading analysis, load distribution, negative skin friction, design for expansive soils, wave equation analysis, batter piles, seismic analysis and the use of softwares for design aid. The fourth part covers Construction Methods including hammers, Inspection, cost estimation, load tests, offshore piling, beams and caps. In this new and updated edition the author has incorporated new pile designs such as helical, composite, wind turbine monopiles, and spiral coil energy piles. All calculations have been updated to most current materials characteristics and designs available in the market. Also, new chapters on negative skin friction, pile driving, and pile load testing have been added. Practicing Geotechnical, and Civil Engineers will find in this book an excellent handbook for frequent consult, benefiting from the clear and direct calculations, examples, and cases. Civil Engineering preparing for PE exams may benefit from the extensive coverage of the subject. Convenient for day-to-day consults; Numerous design examples for sandy soils, clay soils, and seismic loadings; Now including helical, composite, wind turbine monopiles, and spiral coil energy piles; Methodologies and case studies for different pile types; Serves as PE exam preparation material.

Howard A. Perko ... 528 pages - Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (October, 2009) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0470404795 - ISBN-13: 978-0470404799

Less invasive than a traditional poured foundation, using helical piles as a foundation gains points in the USGBC's LEED rating system, making this an important green building technology. Helical Pile Sourcebook offers a practical, real-world approach to the design and installation of helical piles. With unbiased and non-proprietary coverage of the technology and available products, it reviews existing proprietary systems and discusses their pros and cons, as well as when to use helical pile technology over other foundation types. This is an essential resource for students and professionals in engineering, architecture, and construction.

OaSys Alp v19.2.0.15 [Size: 33.4 MB] ... Alp enables you to analyse laterally loaded piles with ease, producing outputs such as comparison graphs in minutes. The software predicts the pressures, horizontal movements, shear forces and bending moments induced in a pile when subjected to lateral loads, bending moments and imposed soil displacements. Lateral loads and bending moments can be applied at any point down the pile, as well as partial or full, lateral or bending moment restraints. Alp software is designed for piling projects of all sizes. You can tailor options to obtain and share results in a clear graphical output, even on the most demanding of projects. With numerous output capabilities and COM interface, Alp is a quick, accurate, and simple software solution for laterally-loaded pile analysis.

Digital Canal Software Collection 2018 [Size 803 MB] ... Retaining Wall: Retaining Wall quickly and easily designs and checks retaining wall systems, including the wall, footing toe and heel and a footing key if necessary. Steel Design: Steel Design software that easily designs or checks steel beams, columns and single span beam- columns using the ASD and LRFD standards. Wind Analysis: Wind software designed to conveniently calculate design wind pressures using ASCE’s “Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures”. Spread Footing: With Spread Footing, footings for hundreds of columns can be designed in less than an hour. VersaFrame: VersaFrame has all the features needed to ‘get the job done’ without becoming overly complex – keeping you in total control. Key features include a sparse matrix solver, automatic area load distribution, fluid loads, load patterning, moving loads, reinforced concrete design, steel design, frequency analysis, P-delta analysis, geometry generator, member elements, plate elements, brick elements and much more.

Concrete Beam Design: Concrete Design software that designs one-way flexural members, including beams, one-way slabs and joists. Concrete Column Design: Concrete Design software that will design or check concrete columns for axial tension, compression and biaxial moments. Timber Design: Design or check any continuous beam or column using the latest building codes (NDS, IBC, ASCE) in just a couple of minutes. Unlimited load and support conditions, automatic load generation and much more… Masonry Wall: Masonry Wall is a design tool for the design of masonry bearing walls, walls that are subject to axial and transverse loads. Frame for AutoCAD: Our Frame Analysis software is the only frame analysis and design program that is truly integrated with AutoCAD.  At the heart of Frame Analysis and Design is the 30+ years proven STRAAD Finite Element engine. Multiple Load Footing: With the Multiple Load Footing program, define combined trapezoidal, strap, or rectangular footings with multiple loads. Shear Wall Analysis: Analyze a building which is laterally supported by shear walls for the shears and moments in each of the shear walls. Static Pile Analysis: Perform vertical and lateral soil-structure interaction analyses for anything from a fence post to a deep pile.  Advanced features include plastic behavior of the soil, skin friction and lateral subgrade reaction that varies with depth.

Pile Group Analysis: Analyze a group of piles for loads in any direction using the same advanced soil-structure model used in the Static Pile program. Piles may be located at different elevations and be battered independently. Pile Cap Analysis & Design: With the Pile Cap program, analyze any pile arrangement and design the pile cap accordingly, including cap thickness, steel requirements, and rebar spacing. Aluminum Design: Design or check aluminum members for axial loads, biaxial bending and deflections.  Supported shapes include wide flanges, tubes, angles, channels, Tees, pipes and double angles. Flat Slab Analysis & Design: Analyze and design flat slab or waffle slab floors.  Flat slabs may have drop panels at columns and columns may have capitals. Composite Steel Design: Design or check encased and composite beams using ASD and LRFD design codes.  Beams can be designed for full or partial composite action. General Section Properties: Calculate the centroidal axis locations, moments of inertia, radius of gyration, section moduli and product moment of inertia for virtually any shape.

Michael Tomlinson, John Woodward ... 608 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 6th edition (October, 2014) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 146659263X - ISBN-13: 978-1466592636  ...

Updated to reflect the current usage of Eurocode 7, along with relevant parts of the British Standards, Pile Design and Construction Practice, Sixth Edition maintains the empirical correlations of the original—combining practical know how with scientific knowledge —and emphasizing relevant principles and applications of soil mechanics and design. Contractors, geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists responsible for designing and constructing piled foundations can find the most current types of pile, piling equipment, and relevant methods in this latest work. The book summarizes recent changes, including new codified design procedures addressing design parameters and partial safety factors. It also presents several examples, many based on actual problems. Broad and Comprehensive In Its Coverage: Contains material applicable to modern computational practice + Provides new sections on the construction of micropiles and CFA piles, pile-soil interaction, verification of pile materials, piling for integral bridge abutments, use of polymer stabilising fluids, and more + Includes calculations of the resistance of piles to compressive loads, pile groups under compressive loading, piled foundations for resisting uplift and lateral loading, and the structural design of piles and pile groups + Covers marine structures, durability of piled foundations, ground investigations, and pile testing + Addresses miscellaneous problems such as machinery foundations, underpinning, mining subsidence areas, geothermal piles, and unexploded ordnance. Pile Design and Construction Practice, Sixth Edition serves as a comprehensive guide for practicing geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists. This text also works as a resource for piling contractors and graduate students studying geotechnical engineering.

Wei Dong Guo ... 576 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (November, 2012) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0415809339 - ISBN-13: 978-0415809337 ...

Pile Foundations are an essential basis for many structures. It is vital that they be designed with the utmost reliability, because the cost of failure is potentially huge. Covering a whole range of design issues relating to pile design, this book presents economical and efficient design solutions and demonstrates them using real world examples. Coverage includes nonlinear response of single piles to vertical or torsional loading and to cyclic lateral loading, as well as prediction of nonlinear response of lateral pile groups, vertically loaded pile groups and the design of slope stabilising piles. Most solutions are provided as closed-form expressions. Theory and Practice of Pile Foundations is: illustrated with case studies + accompanied by practical applications in Excel and MathCad  + the first book to incorporate nonlinear interaction into pile design. A valuable resource for students of geotechnical engineering taking courses in foundations and a vital tool for engineers designing pile foundations.

Innovative Geotechnics PileAXL v2.2, PileGroup v2.1, PileLAT v2.2, PileROC v2 [Size: 24.5 MB] ... Innovative Geotechnics provide geotechnical design tools for pile groups, laterally loaded piles, nonlinear p-y curve generation and rock socket design including single piles or pile groups under lateral and vertical loading based on finite element method. Our programs are focused on the geotechnical analytical knowledge, improving user engagement and reducing potential input uncertainties. All geotechnical programs and software adopt simple input interface for the users to interactively input the analysis information such as soil layer information, soil properties, and foundation parameters. PileAXL. Axial capacity and settlement of single piles under axial loading for both bored and driven pile types. PileGroup. Pile groups under three-dimensional loading - vertical and horizontal forces, bending moments and torsion on the pile cap. PileLAT. Analysis of single piles under lateral loading based on nonlinear p-y curves for various soil and rock types. PileROC. Analysis of load settlement curve at the pile head for rock sockets under compressive axial loading.

Gopal Madabhushi, Jonathan Knappett ... Pile foundations are the most common form of deep foundations that used both onshore and offshore to transfer large superstructure loads into competent soil strata. This book provides many case histories of failure of pile foundations due to earthquake loading and soil liquefaction. Based on the observed case histories, the possible mechanisms of failure of the pile foundations are postulated. The book also deals with the additional loading attracted by piles in liquefiable soils due to lateral spreading of sloping ground. Recent research at Cambridge forms the backbone of this book with the design methodologies being developed directly based on quantified centrifuge test results and numerical analysis. The book provides designers and practicing civil engineers with a sound knowledge of pile behaviour in liquefiable soils and easy-to-use methods to design pile foundations in seismic regions. For graduate students and researchers, it brings together the latest research findings on pile foundations in a way that is relevant to geotechnical practice.

Info-Details: 232 pages - Publisher: Imperial College Press; 1st edition (September, 2009) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1848163622 - ISBN-13: 978-1848163621 ... 

Thomas Whitaker ... The Design of Piled Foundations, Second Edition focuses on the theories which have been advanced to predict the loads which piles will carry, both singly and when used in groups to form a piled foundation. Organized into 12 chapters, this book begins with an explanation of the utilization of piles. Subsequent chapters discuss the types of piles and their construction; pile driving by vibration; the calculation of the ultimate bearing capacity of a pile from soil properties; the settlement of single piles and the choice of a factor of safety; and piles in soft soils. Other chapters describe pile testing; piles in groups with vertical loading; horizontal forces on piles and pile group; and the durability of piles.

Info-Details: 234 pages - Publisher: Pergamon; 2nd edition (January, 1976) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1483127257 - ISBN-13: 978-1483127255 ...

Suzanne J. M. van Eekelen, Marijn H. A. Brugman ... 
156 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; (September, 2016) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 9053676244 - ISBN-13: 978-9053676240 ...

A basal reinforced piled embankment consists of a reinforced embankment on a pile foundation. The reinforcement consists of one or more horizontal layers of geosynthetic reinforcement installed at the base of the embankment.

A basal reinforced piled embankment can be used for the construction of a road or a railway when a traditional construction method would require too much construction time, affect vulnerable objects nearby or give too much residual settlement, making frequent maintenance necessary.

This publication is a guideline (CUR226) for the design of basal reinforced piled embankments. The guideline covers the following subjects: a survey of the requirements and the basic principles for the structure as a whole; some instructions for the pile foundation and the pile caps; design rules for the embankment with the basal geosynthetic reinforcement; extensive calculation examples; finite element calculations; construction details and management and maintenance of the piled embankment. The guideline includes many practical tips. The design guideline is based on state-of-the-art Dutch research, which was conducted in cooperation with many researchers from different countries.

W. A. Wallace, J. A. Gannon, Gordon G. T. Masterton, David Muir Wood ... This book summarises current knowledge and practice. It provides a definition of weak rock, and considers the nature of the material and the best ways of investigating, characterising and classifying weak rock for the purpose of pile design. Four published design methods are examined, and five case studies illustrate the main points of the report.

Info-Details: 140 pages - Publisher: Construction Industry Research & Information Association (CIRIA); (December, 1999) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0860174948 - ISBN-13: 978-0860174943 ...

Volkan Kaltakci ... 120 pages - Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing; (September 16, 2009)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 3838314050 - ISBN-13: 978-3838314051

The use of piled raft foundations has significantly increased over the last few decades since taking into account the contribution of the raft to the overall bearing capacity enabled the engineers to design much more efficient piled foundations which perform as well as the conventionally designed ones with significantly lower number of piles. However, although many researchers have been studying on this subject, a user-friendly design procedure is still not available in the literature. This book, therefore, offers two different simple methods to estimate the settlements of the piled raft foundations. Utilizing the charts provided in this book, the settlement of a piled raft foundation can be obtained by simple hand calculations in the first method while it can be calculated by computerized analysis in the second one. This book should be especially useful for the geotechnical experts and/or engineers looking for a simplified method for the analysis of piled rafts and academicians who are interested in thesubject.

Paul Holscher, Frits A. van Tol ... 
200 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (December 1, 2008)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0415482976 - ISBN-13: 978-0415482974

To obtain data about the stiffness and bearing capacity of a foundation pile, the Rapid Load Test could be an effective and economic alternative for a static load test. In order to judge this, the influence of rate effects in clay and pore water pressures in sand should first be understood. This book presents the latest developments in the research that is carried out to unravel these effects. It contains current contributions by world wide leading academics. Moreover the editors summarize the empirical field data and discuss advanced centrifuge modeling. This indispensable information source on the progress in Rapid Load Testing is intended for researchers and professionals working on the load testing of foundation piles.

Ulrich Smoltczyk ... 787 pages - Publisher: Ernst&Sohn; (June, 2002)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 3433014493 - ISBN-13: 978-3433014493

Volume 1 covers the basics necessary for any construction activity in foundation engineering. This systematic introduction to the assessment of soil and rock properties provides an insight into the requirements of Eurocode 7, Parts 1 and 3. It also gives details of geotechnical laboratory and field tests and the associated equipment, concise treatments of relevant solutions provided by the theories of elasticity and plasticity and numerical methods applied to solve problems of geotechnical design. The problems of earthquakes are also explained with regard to Eurocode 8.

701 pages - Publisher: Ernst&Sohn; (January, 2003) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 3433014507 - ISBN-13: 978-3433014509 ... 

Volume 2 of the handbook covers the geotechnical procedures used in manufacturing anchors and piles as well as for improving or underpinning foundations, securing existing constructions, controlling ground water, excavating rocks and earth works. It also treats such specialist areas as the use of geotextiles and seeding.

666 pages - Publisher: Ernst&Sohn; (April, 2003) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 3433014515 - ISBN-13: 978-3433014516 ...

Volume 3 of this handbook deals with foundations. It presents spread foundations starting with basic designs right up the necessary proofs. The section on pile foundations covers possible types of piles and their design, together with their load-bearing capacity, suitability, sample loads and testing. A further chapter explains the use, manufacture and calculation of caissons, illustrated by real-life examples. There is comprehensive coverage of the possibilities for stabilising excavations, together with the relevant area of application, while another section is devoted to the useful application of trench walls. Shore protection is treated in a special contribution covering sheet pile walls, while all types of slope protection and retainments are described in detail with excellent illustrations. Two further contributions are devoted to the special topics of machine foundations and foundations in subsidence regions. The entire book is an indispensable aid in the planning and execution of all types of foundations found in practice, whether for academics or practitioners.

40 pages
Publisher: Amer Society of Civil Engineers; (January 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0784402191
ISBN-13: 978-0784402191

This Standard provides a guideline for an engineering approach to the design and subsequent installation of pile foundations. The purpose is to furnish a rational basis for this process, taking into account published model building codes and general standards of practice. It covers such topics as: administrative requirements; pile shaft strength requirements; soil-pile interface strength requirements and capacity; design loads; design stresses; construction and layout guidelines for pile design; and installation guidelines for pile construction. In addition, the Standard includes information on applicable standards from ASTM, AWPA, and ACI. It concludes with an Appendix on partial factors of safety.

R. J. Jardine, F. Chow ... 
48 pages
Publisher: Marine Technology Directorate; (January 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1870553314
ISBN-13: 978-1870553315

The complexities of designing piles for lateral loads are manifold as there are many forces that are critical to the design of big structures such as bridges, offshore and waterfront structures and retaining walls. The loads on structures should be supported either horizontally or laterally or in both directions and most structures have in common that they are founded on piles. To create solid foundations, the pile designer is driven towards finding the critical load on a certain structure, either by causing overload or by causing too much lateral deflection.

This second edition of Reese and Van Impe’s course book explores and explains lateral load design and procedures for designing piles and pile groups, accounting for the soil resistance, as related to the lateral deflection of the pile. It addresses the analysis of piles of varying stiffness installed into soils with a variety of characteristics, accounting for the axial load at the top of the pile and for the rotational restraint of the pile head. The presented method using load-transfer functions is currently applied in practice by thousands of engineering offices in the world. Moreover, various experimental case design examples, including the design of an offshore platform pile foundation are given to complement theory. The rich list of relevant publications will serve the user into further reading.

William F. Van Impe, Peter van Impe ... Although progressing very well over the last years, the design criteria for bored and auger piles are still not fully under control and in acceptable synergism with the real pile foundation behaviour. Although there has been a lot of research in the past years  worldwide on deep foundation engineering, the strong and competitive market has absolutely favorized the ingenuity of the contractor’s world. A striking example of this is of such developments linked ideas on energy piles; one of the key topics in this book. This book presents the current status of screw or bore pile-soil interaction findings and developments.

Info-Details: 358 pages -  Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (August, 2008) - Language: English - ASIN: B0084ETT74 by Amazon Digital Services ...

The Federation of Piling Specialists and In Association with BGA ... 
642 pages
Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing; 2nd edition (January 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0727733583
ISBN-13: 978-0727733580

The new ICE Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls is designed to be used as the new technical specification for piling and embedded walling works either on land or near to shore. It documents the latest piling techniques and procurement methods used in the foundations sector whilst incorporating the changes introduced by the new European Standards.

Shamsher Prakash, Hari D. Sharma ... This is a concise, systematic and complete treatment of the design and construction of pile foundations. Discusses pile behavior under various loadings and types of piles and their installation, including consideration of soil parameters. It provides step-by-step design procedures for piles subject to vertical loading and pullout, lateral, inclined and eccentric loads, or dynamic loads, and for piles in permafrost. Also describes load test procedures and their interpretation and buckling of long, slender piles with and without supported length. The closing chapter presents case histories of prediction and performance of piles and pile groups. Includes numerous solved problems.

Info-Details: 768 pages - Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1st edition (July, 1990) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0471616532 - ISBN-13: 978-0471616535 ...