GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

ASSIGNMENT

TOPIC : COMPACTION PILES

ATHIRA H S
S6 CE
ROLL NO: 20
 Compaction piles

• Compacted by driving piles into soil

• Compaction achieved by simple displacement
• For granular soil – displacement + vibration
• Amount of compaction depends on
– Spacing
– Size
– Vibrating energy (proportional to fine content ,<
20%)
• Compaction piles
– Structural piles (timber / pre-cast/ concrete)
– Fill material pile (Sand piles, gravel)
• Structural piles densifies loose soil
• Sand piles
– installed by driving a hollow steel mandrel with a false
bottom to the required depth
– fill the mandrel with sand
– applying air pressure to the top of the sand column
– Withdraw the mandrel
– Pore water pressure increases
Vibro composer – sand piles
Vibro-composer method
 driving a casing to the
required depth by means of a
vibrator.
 A quantity of sand is then
placed in the pipe which is
partially withdrawn as
compressed air is blown down
the casing
 Next the pipe is vibrated
downwards to compact the
sand pile.
 The process is repeated until
the ground surface is reached
 Gravel compaction piles
• a tube closed by a plug of gravel (or zero slump
concrete) is driven into the ground by means of a
drop-hammer striking the plug
• the soil is compacted radially around the tube while
driving
• tube at design depth an expanded base is formed by
ramming with a high-energy hammer
• tube is then raised in lifts & gravel is driven from the
tube so forming a continuous pile of compacted
gravel