1.

EXPERIMENTAL CASES

Cases Target Displacement Color Sand

a) 0.01 mm/sec 8 mm (20% d) YES
b) 0.1 mm/sec " "
Displacemen c) 1.0 mm/sec " "
i) Monotonic t Control d) 10.0 mm/sec " "
e) 25.0 mm/sec " "
f) 50.0 mm/sec " "
Static
" "
" "
Displacemen " "
ii) Cyclic "
t Control " "
" "
" "
Displacement: 0.1 mm
Frequency: 5Hz - 35 Hz
(1 Hz interval) NO

i) Impedence Displacemen Displacement: 0.2 mm

Function t Control Frequency: 5Hz - 35 Hz
(1 Hz interval) "
Displacement: 0.3 mm
Frequency: 5Hz - 35 Hz
(1 Hz interval) "
Frequency: 1Hz , 2.5Hz,
5Hz, 7.5Hz, 10 Hz "
a) Disp: 0.5 mm "
Dynamic b) Disp: 1.0mm "
c) Disp: 2.0mm "
ii) Varying Displacemen
amplitude t Control d) Disp: 3.0mm "
e) Disp: 4.0mm "
f) Disp: 5.0mm "
g) Disp: 6.0mm "
h) Disp: 7.0mm "
i) Disp: 8.0mm "
1) Kobe 1995 "
2) Ojiya 2004 "
iii) Time varying 3) Shin-Tokai "
4) Tomakomai 2003 "
5) Elcentro "
Remarks

3 cycles
3 cycles
3 cycles
3 cycles
3 cycles
3 cycles
Experiment Setup
Gifu Sand ii) Varying amplitude (displa
Compaction Freq(Hz)
Frqueny 40 Hz Disp(mm)
Amplitude 5 m/s2
Time 2 hours 0.5
1
Experiment (for a single pile) 2
1. STATIC CASES 3
i) Monotonic 4
a) 0.01mm/sec 5
b) 0.05mm/sec 6
c) 0.1mm/sec 7
d) 0.5mm/sec 8
e) 1.0 mm/sec

Fy
force

Δ
displacement

ii. Cyclic loading only positive side

2Δ 3Δ 4Δ
1Δ
force

displacement

ii. Cyclic loading both side

3Δ 4Δ
2Δ
1Δ
force

displacement

4Δ
3Δ 2Δ 1Δ
2. DYNAMIC CASES

i) Imedance Function

Disp(mm) 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40

Freq(Hz) acc. (m/s )
2

1 0.0039 0.0079 0.0118 0.0158 acc. (m/s2) 0.5 5.0

2 0.0158 0.0316 0.0474 0.0632 freq (hz) disp(mm)
3 0.0355 0.0711 0.1066 0.1421 5 0.507 5.066
4 0.0632 0.1263 0.1895 0.2527 20 0.032 0.317
5 0.0987 0.1974 0.2961 0.3948 35 0.010 0.103
6 0.1421 0.2842 0.4264 0.5685
7 0.1934 0.3869 0.5803 0.7738
8 0.2527 0.5053 0.7580 1.0106 Acc. = w2d
9 0.3198 0.6396 0.9593 1.2791 Vel. = wd
10 0.3948 0.7896 1.1844 1.5791 w= 2πf
11 0.4777 0.9554 1.4331 1.9108
12 0.5685 1.1370 1.7055 2.2740
13 0.6672 1.3344 2.0016 2.6687
14 0.7738 1.5476 2.3213 3.0951
15 0.8883 1.7765 2.6648 3.5531
16 1.0106 2.0213 3.0319 4.0426
17 1.1409 2.2819 3.4228 4.5637
18 1.2791 2.5582 3.8373 5.1164
19 1.4252 2.8503 4.2755 5.7007
20 1.5791 3.1583 4.7374 6.3165
21 1.7410 3.4820 5.2230 6.9640
22 1.9108 3.8215 5.7323 7.6430
23 2.0884 4.1768 6.2652 8.3536
24 2.2740 4.5479 6.8219 9.0958
25 2.4674 4.9348 7.4022 9.8696
26 2.6687 5.3375 8.0062 10.6750
27 2.8780 5.7560 8.6339 11.5119
28 3.0951 6.1902 9.2853 12.3804
29 3.3201 6.6403 9.9604 13.2805
30 3.5531 7.1061 10.6592 14.2122
31 3.7939 7.5878 11.3816 15.1755
32 4.0426 8.0852 12.1278 16.1704
33 4.2992 8.5984 12.8976 17.1968
34 4.5637 9.1274 13.6911 18.2548
35 4.8361 9.6722 14.5083 19.3444
36 5.1164 10.2328 15.3492 20.4656
37 5.4046 10.8092 16.2138 21.6184
38 5.7007 11.4014 17.1021 22.8027
39 6.0047 12.0093 18.0140 24.0187
40 6.3165 12.6331 18.9496 25.2662
ii) Varying amplitude (displacement control)
1.0 2.5 5.0 7.5 10.0 12.5 15.0
Acc.(m/s2)

0.02 0.12 0.49 1.11 1.97 3.08 4.44

0.04 0.25 0.99 2.22 3.95 6.17 8.88
0.08 0.49 1.97 4.44 7.90 12.34 17.77
0.12 0.74 2.96 6.66 11.84 18.51 26.65
0.16 0.99 3.95 8.88 15.79 24.67 35.53
0.20 1.23 4.93 11.10 19.74 30.84 44.41
0.24 1.48 5.92 13.32 23.69 37.01 53.30
0.28 1.73 6.91 15.54 27.63 43.18 62.18
0.32 1.97 7.90 17.77 31.58 49.35 71.06

Fig. 1: Pile geometry and experimental setup by CS Goit et al.