Pile Bearing Capacity

Single Pile
Pile Group

Pile Bearing Capacity of Single Pile

Compression capacity Tension capacity Lateral capacity

Keywords: compression, lateral load, tension

Load Transfer
Two Mechanisms
Side Friction, Ps
(skin friction)

Toe-bearing Resistance, Pt
(point-bearing resistance,end bearing resistance, tip bearing resistance)

Load Transfer

Belled Piers

Factor of Safety (Piles) Table 13.1

Factor of Safety (Drilled Shafts) Table 13.2

GEOTECHNICAL STRENGTH
Vertical compression loading:
ULTIMATE GEOTECHNICAL STRENGTH
- or capacity, Rug

Rug fs A s fb A b

GEOTECHNICAL STRENGTH
fs = average, fully mobilized, skin friction
(INTERFACE friction & adhesion) f b = ultimate base bearing pressure Dependent upon SOIL TYPE SOIL PROFILE PILE MATERIAL

INSTALLATION

Low load

Ultimate load

fs = max fs = max for the full length fs << max

Base resistance, fb, mobilized

 Load distribution along pile

Ultimate resistance of piles: For sand, shaft and point equally contribute to ultimate resistance For clay, shaft resistance dominated ultimate resistance

Keywords: sand, clay, point resistance, shaft resistance

 Load vs. Displacement

Keywords: load, displacement, soft clay, stiff clay, sand, cast in place pile, driven pile, with bell

 Load deformation relationship

Shaft resistance of soft clay and sand are fully mobilized, i.e. reach its maximum value, at

relatively small pile displacement.

Point resistance is reached at relatively large

pile displacement compare to shaft resistance.

 Load deformation relationship

Point resistance of large displacement piles (i.e. drivenpile) is mobilized relatively faster (at relatively small

displacement) than non-displacement piles (i.e. boredpile). This due to the fact that driven pile compacting soil close to the pile tip, and bored-pile loosening soil close

the pile tip due to stress release.

However, for a certain cases driven pile could loosen soil close to the pile tip. For example, driving piles through very dense sand or highly over consolidated soil.

 Idealized load deformation relationship

Keywords: pile load, point resistance, skin resistance