PILES FOUNDATIONS

BY
Zainelabdeen Sedahmed
 Load transmition
1. End bearing piles
2. Friction piles
3. Combination of friction and end bearing piles
 Load transmitting

Load Load

Soft
Pile Soil Pile

Firm
Soil
Ground Reaction

End bearing piles .Friction piles

 Piles Materials

.Timber piles

.Concrete piles

Steel piles
Combination Piles
)Precast Concrete & “H” Pile Points(
Steel Sheet Piles
 Types of piles
• From their functions
1) End bearing piles
2) Friction piles
3) Settlement reducing piles
4) Tension piles
5) Laterally loaded piles
6) Piles in fill
• From their method construction
A. Driven piles
B. Boring piles
Factors influencing choice of pile

There are many factors that can affect the

choice of a piled foundation but the most
important factors are:
1.Location and type of structure
2.Ground conditions
3.Durability
4.Cost
End Bearing Piles
Friction Piles
Settlement reducing piles
Piles In Fill
 Drilled Piles

• Are installed by drilling a

hole in the soil using an
auger.
• concrete is placed in the
hole to form the pile.
• Prefer to be used for
cohesive soils
 Driven Pile
• is predetermined solid
material, shape and size.
• is installed by driving or
pushing into the earth.
• Used for cohesion-less
soils.
 Installation of
Bored Piles

.Bored piles
 Installation of
Driven Piles

Driven piles
 Pile Cap

•Piles are arranged in groups of three or more.

•The group of piles is commonly tied together by a
pile cap.
•Pile cap is reinforced concrete slab attached to the
head of individual piles and causes the several piles
to act together as a pile foundation.
•The main propose of pile cap is to distribute the
load from a column equally between piles.