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Driven piles in clay - the effects of installation and subsequent consolidation

Mark Randolph, +2 more
- 01 Dec 1979 - 
- Vol. 29, Iss: 4, pp 361-393
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In this article, the effects of installing a driven pile on the strength of the soil were investigated using a work-hardening elasto-plastic soil model, which has the unique feature of allowing the strength to change as the water content changes, thus it is possible to calculate the new intrinsic soil strength at any stage during consolidation.
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This paper describes the results of numerical analysis of the effects of installing a driven pile. The geometry of the problem has been simplified by the assumption of plane strain conditions in addition to axial symmetry. Pile installation has been modelled as the undrained expansion of a cylindrical cavity. The excess pore pressures generated in this process have subsequently been assumed to dissipate by means of outward radial flow of pore water. The consolidation of the soil has been studied using a work-hardening elasto–plastic soil model which has the unique feature of allowing the strength of the soil to change as the water content changes. Thus it is possible to calculate the new intrinsic soil strength at any stage during consolidation. In particular the long-term shaft capacity of a driven pile may be estimated from the final effective stress state and intrinsic strength of the soil adjacent to the pile. A parametric study has been made of the effect of the past consolidation history of the soil...

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Field trials on monotonic behaviour of a driven pile at an offshore wind farm in China

TL;DR: In this article, the loading response of offshore pile foundations is enriched to optimally balance safety and economic considerations in design, so that safety considerations can be optimally balanced in design.
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Effect of OCR and Pile Diameter on Load Movement Response of Piles Embedded in Clay over Time

TL;DR: In this paper , the effects of pile diameter and overconsolidation ratio on variations of stress state in soil adjacent to the pile and variations of the pile ultimate load over time using a nonlinear finite-element method numerical scheme and comparisons with field test data.
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Contributions to Géotechnique 1948–2008: Laboratory and field testing

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Theoretical Soil Mechanics

Karl Terzaghi

On the generalized stress-strain behavior of wet clay

K. H. Roscoe
TL;DR: The theory of the three-dimensional stress-strain behavior of WET CLAYs was introduced by BURLAND as discussed by the authors, who showed that WETCLAYs are subject to three dimensions of stress and strain.
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Skin Friction between Various Soils and Construction Materials

J. G. Potyondy
- 01 Dec 1961 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used several hundred experiments to determine the magnitude of skin friction, in which the following variables were considered: (1) Various construction materials: steel, wood, concrete; (2) For each material two surface conditions were used: smooth and rough; which are described in such a way that they may be reproduced by anyone with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
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The Sensitivity of Clays

A. W. Skemption, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1952 - 
TL;DR: The sensitivity of clays is defined as the ratio of their undisturbed and remoulded strengths, and varies from about 1·O for heavily overconsolidated clays to values of over 100 for the so-called extrasensitive or quick clays.
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Bearing capacity and settlement of pile foundations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors point out further aspects of limit point bearing capacity of piles in sand as well as the overlayered stratum and critical depth, and propose a relationship between the critical depth D sub c and p sub c, or 1 sub 1.