REFINEMENT OF THE CALCULATION OF A PILE

FOUNDATION AS A CONDITIONAL MASSIVE FOUNDATION

D. M. Shapiro UDC 624.154.001.24

When determining the angle of tilt and pressure on soil of a pile foundation which is regarded as a
conditional massive foundation according to Art. 7.1 of SNiP II-B.5-67 and Appendix 22 of SN 200-62 [I],
one uses the magnitude of the moment M from the external loads at the level of the undersurface of the gril-
lage, which, as noted [2], is erroneous. The moment M l of the force acting on the undersurface of the foun-
dation (plane AD) can be considered equal to M only in the case of a low grillage in the absence o5 an exter-
nal horizontal load H (see Fig. i).
For foundations of bridge piers and in other cases where the pile grillage is subjected to the action
of a horizontal load the value of M l can be determined by the equation
M1 = 7~Pi.tvco~ y~, (1)
where Pi is the longitudinal force in the i-th pile; ti ~s the horizontal coordinate of its point relative to the
center of gravity of the conditional massive foundation in the plane of action of the forces; ~/i is the angle
of inclination to the vertical. Forces Pi are determined by calculation of the grillage for the effect of loads
N, H, M in conformity w'th the method in [3].

Equation (i) is based on the assumption that the transverse (horizontal)

pressure of the pile on the earth crx is absorbed along the vertical faces of
C
the foundations ABCD and the longitudinal forces Pi being transmitted to the
I soil by skin friction and through the pressure of the pile point are equalized
by the base within the undersurface ADo
l The assumptions made permit substantial refinement of the calcula-
!iF f tion in many cases.
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I/II LITERATURE CITED

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2.
Specifications of the Design of Railroad, Highway, and Municipal
Bridges and Tubes SN200-62 [in Russian], Transzheldorizdat (1962)
K. S. Zavriev and G. S. Shpiro, "Verification of a pile foundation as a
Fig. 1 massive foundation," Transportnoe Stroitel ~stVo, No. 7 (1965).
3. K. S. Zavriev and G. S. Shpiro, Calculations of the Foundations of Deep
Bridge Piers [in Russian], Transport (1971).

Voronezh Branch, Scientific-Research Institute of Highway and Hydraulic Engineering. Translated

from Osnovaniya, Fundamenty i Mekhanil~ Gruntov, No. i, p. 28, January-February, 1974.

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