Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The allowable lateral load on piles is determined from the following two criteria:
① Allowable lateral load is obtained by dividing the ultimate (failure) load by an adequate factor of safety.
② Allowable lateral load is corresponding to an acceptable lateral deflection.
The smaller of the two above values is the one actually adopted as the design lateral load.
Methods of calculating lateral resistance of vertical piles can be broadly divided into two categories.
- Pile Parameters
Elastic Moment of ec Pile yield Pile
Pile Dia. Thickness
Pile Type Modulus Inertia Moment Length Soil Type
(b, mm) (t, mm) (Ep,kgf/cm2) ( Ip, cm4) (ec, mm) (My, kg-cm) (D, m)
400 65.0 4.0E+05 106,435 0.0 9.2E+05 8.0
※ ec : Eccentricity of applied load for free-headed piles (i.e., vertical distance between ground surface and lateral load)
1) The general soil type within the critical depth (approximately 4 to 5 pile diameters = 2.0 m) below the ground surface is
considered to be very loose sand (cohesionless soil) from the soil report.
2) Determine the coefficient of horizontal subgrade reaction (Kh) within the critical depth for cohesionless soils.
Values of the coefficient of modulus variation Kh are obtained from the following Table.
(The values of given in following table were determined by Terzaghi.)
Kh (lb/in3)
Soil Above
Density Groundwate Below
r Groundwater
Loose 7 4
Medium 30 20
Dense 65 40 ∴ Choose from the Table = 7 lb/in3 (above ground water)
4) Determine the other required soil parameters over the embedded length of the pile.
a) The Rankine passive earth pressure coefficient for cohesionless soil (Kp)
Long free headed pile in cohesionless soil – using M y / γb 4 K p (and e c / b for free headed case)
3
enter Figure 1 and select the corresponding value of Q u / K p b γ and solve for Q u
ec / b = 0 / 15.75 = 0.0
6) Calculate the maximum allowable working load for a single pile (Qm)
Calculate Q a corresponding to a given design deflection at the ground surface (y) or the deflection corresponding
to a given design load.
Free headed pile in cohesionless soil – using ηD (and e c / D for free headed case) enter Figure 2 and
3/ 5
select the corresponding value of y ( EI ) K h 2/ 5 / Q a D and solve for Qa of y.
Compare Qa to Qm
Since Qa = 2.78 ton < Qm = 2.94 ton , use Q_allow = 2.78 ton (for Pile Foundation Design)
Attachment