SETI AN APPROXIMATE WeMHOD TO ESTIMATE "TH BEARING CAPACITY OP PILES ‘UM MBTODO APROXINADO PARA ESTIMATIVA TDA CAPACKDADE DR CARGA DE ESTACAS Netoon Ales : ng: 'Bxtaoan Fronkt'} Leoturor n Foundation Mginosring, "inajltute Militar de Bugonharia!, Rio de Janoiro, Brasil : Dirvou de Alenoar Vel2080 ng. 'Betaodh Frankly As000. Professor, COFPE = Univeroidade Fodorel Ao Rio do Janairo, Bo de Janoiro, Brasil SUMMARY ‘The paper proaonts a mothod to ontinate the hoaring pa~ pacity of piles of different, type fron the Feaulte of de dynanio'pe~ netration tests. E 7 Xaking woo of sone correlations, xe obtain froil “this results the values of point rostetance and latoral friction thid wold otherwise bo measured in a statio ponstration test. Theny-wei eetinate ‘the baaring capaoity'of the pilb. Furthermore, by neane of corrective factors, tho remulte obtained by tho established method were tentati vely adjusted to those obtained with the load tent A conparative table givoe tho results obtained by the nothod and in the field-When the load did not resoh the wltinets Jong, ‘ap 44 generally happons, the Yan der Yeon nothod wae used 40 detereine ‘hat Toad. ‘The method 1a easily programed, even for euall ooap teres SUNARTO © trabalho apronenta um critério de eotinativa ge éape~ oddede de oangs de eptacas de diferentes tipos a partir dos requlte- on doo entaice de penotzagio dindsior “rodupad” 86" . ‘Sbtidos pate erfteria oor Witelsolde soe do provan de carga. apresentedo tn quairo conpara tieativar foltas © os resultados de provas de carga eas proves do carga mao fora: lovadas até a rupture, © quo soon Yeoo pa matoria das vezes, utilizouoo 0 método do Yan dor Yoon pare native da osrga do rupture, “0 orttério 6 faotleonte progresével, nos ocapitadores. jos para peque- 3671 - Tymowerta : ‘Me dynanto panotration test 10 widely ised in the foun dation ongineoring prsttice in Brasil. In current oases, it ie, almost alvaya, tho sole inforuation elezent on the nature of the soil eveila, die for the atudy of @ foundation. Te 16 only naturel, thoreforé, to search for an socopts die orttertun to ostinato tho lenght. of foundation plies based only on the Tevulta of this test - doseription of leyers orvssed, duly olag sified, water table loostion ‘and wanpler'e penetration test (number oF Blows: per 30on). This 19) preoleely, the cbjeot of this work.A comple to atuly on tho prosont state of the art of the dynanio pengiralion test oan be found in (1. ? tho authors would 24ke to note, beforehand, that orite- tu prosunted doos not take nto consideration wore feots thet iy fieen inportant, besides thove derived fren errors inkerent to the De : notration teat. Partionlarly, no distinotion has been nade detveen tho indexes" obtained with the to samplers ccamonly used 4m Bre tilt a) Nohr'a ~ external dinsoter 4.130, intemal dianeter 2.54ca; ’) Raymond = Teréaght‘ar oxtemnal dianoter 5.08cx, interne) dienoter | 3,48on. Notwtthatanding, ae 4t will be show, the comparigon — bot { ween setinates and the remilte of load teste indicates a sitiafucte— ay approxination for practical purpose " a ‘Toe knowledge of correlations between" theSPP and xp He fat 1ooa1 friction, has allowed tho olaberation of en guthoxatio pro & rem, aiming at dotormining the depth of pile of laioim geometry. Xt should eleo bo pointed that when applying this orl terins ~ valid only for a single pile — ono should not forget to con elder tho group offect. Ths alysis ie ode in therue of ultinate Doaring capacity, being the allovable load wtabliched by the applicg, Hon of en adequate factor of satoty. . 2 = UUPTMATE BEARING CAPACTTY OP PILES PR kg in (21, the ultimate besiring ospsoity-of 8 pile Of poriaoter U and base area 8 oan bo otina toa by the eonlmeapirical statio forsile (tig. 1) R= BP + PL WNOr’ PR ow ultimate load PP |= load carried by tho point Load oarried by friction coves (B8SE F'p = point resistance soll-pile leteral frictionIn [2] one finds numerical values recommended for several Kinds of sofia, Values of 2'p and r'e oon also be evalucted frcs static penetration tevts, In this last once, one must consider the effect of foundation's depth, of Ate dinensions and of the way 1¢ 19 executed. For coheotonloas sofie axd sual depths, At has been teritiod that (314 Crp whoye xp = point resistance in the statto penetration tom Tor great depthor ap 2p Jocording to profenser Dé"Deor's snportaint work [41-5 ‘the influenoe of foundetion's sire, an case of Cohesionlecs ecils, 16 a fumotion of the depth and density of the soil, ‘Te difference between tp and rtp lessens ao dépth grous or as denoity dinintohos. In oplte of any ofitiota: that oan be mado in fogante 4 tho static penetration tent, 1¢ 10 largely used for the intarprotation of the ultinate load of piles Go shown in [4] [5] [6]. In Breeily tho statio penetration toat 4x not ae lengely used ax tho dale penotné Hon Yebt and, in general, the decision on the depth of the foundation mis ‘be based on the dats of this loet teotaFor thisy it is necessary to know the cosreletions between the two cote of data obtained fr Kinds cf teste. As on oxanple, Brasilien oxporience, {6} shows that it in possible 10 expreset ae KY where xp = point resistance in kg/on2 N= number of blows per 300m in the dynamic penetration test ana Clays, silty olays snd-clayey atite Sandy clays and ‘sandy silts Sandy silts Gayey ands, Sends Tn Sanglorat [9] ono oon find a rosuné of valuse obtained in attterant ooutrion. An forthe value of tha leteral friction, Bogezann [10] ‘has oonoludaa Yhat this value 49 a funotion of the kind of tho - eoil re = looal lateral friotion and.oc obtaind fron +