SU Shi-ding, YANG Zhong-xuan, GUO Wang-bo. Assessment of design methods for axial bearing capacity of driven piles in clay[J]. 2015, 36(S2): 389-393.
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SU Shi-ding, YANG Zhong-xuan, GUO Wang-bo. Assessment of design methods for axial bearing capacity of driven piles in clay[J]. 2015, 36(S2): 389-393.DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2015.S2.054.
Assessment of design methods for axial bearing capacity of driven piles in clay
Predicting the behavior of driven piles is a key issue in practical engineering
particularly in major bridge
wind turbines
harbor and offshore engineering applications where the piled foundations are widely used to underpin the superstructures and the pile capacity is seldom determined from pile load tests. Numerous methods exist for calculation of axial pile capacity in clay
including four design methods
namely Furgo-96
NGI-99
ICP-05 and UWA-13. However
application of the latter in mainstream civil engineering sector has been relatively slow
possibly because of the small number of high quality
full scale
case histories available to demonstrate their potential benefits. Thus
it is necessary to collect a more comprehensive database to evaluate the performance of the four design methods objectively and to assist designers in the selection of the most appropriate method. A new ZJU-ICL Clay database with 89 high-quality pile load tests is formed by expanding the major databases with new available pile load tests. Database assessment of these four methods and evaluation of the predictive performance by using mean ? and coefficient of variation COV are presented.