Elastic Settlement Analysis of Single Piles - Randolph

ELASTIC SETTLEMENT ANALYSIS OF SINGLE PILES

GENERAL COMPRESSIBLE PILE SOLUTION BASED ON RANDOLPH AND WROTH (1978,1979)

Input Quantities Value Units Comment

1. Pile Conditions
Pile Type: (f,e) e f=floating, e=end-bearing
Modulus, E p 30000 MPa
Length, L 13 m
Pile shape: (r,s) r - r=round, s=square
Shaft Outer Diameter or Size, d so 1.5 m
Shaft Inner Diameter or Size, d si 0 m
Base Diameter or Width, d b 1.5 m
2. Loading Conditions
Applied Load, P a 4000 kN Enter data in yellow cells only
3. Soil Conditions
Young's Modulus at Top, E st 15 MPa
Young's Modulus at Bottom, E sL 55 MPa
Poisson's Ratio, n s 0.2 -
Young's Modulus of Bearing Stratum, Eb 88.5 MPa

Calculated Quantities
1. Equivalent Parameters
Pile Radius, r o 0.75 m
*
Pile Modulus, E p 30000 MPa
2. Dimensionless Parameters
Underreamed Piles, h 1 -
End-bearing Piles, x 0.621469 -
Variation of Soil Modulus, r E 0.636364 -
Pile-soil Stiffness Ratio, l 1309.091 -
Pile Compression, z 2.731134 -
Load Settlement Ratio, m l 0.409959 -
x1 4.954218
x2 7.413684
x 3 32.08938

3. Vertical Displacement at pile top

Displacement at Pile top, w t 7.49 mm

4. Vertical Displacement at pile base

Displacement at Pile base, w b 6.90 mm

5. Load Transfer
Fraction of the total load transferred to
the pile base, P b /P t 23.10 %