Rapid Load Testing on Piles

ISBN-13: 9780367386290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Paul Holscher; Frits A. Van Tol

Opis

Report on the Rapid Load Test as an effective and economic alternative for a static load test. Discusses many factors investigated within the perspective of developing an international standard for the execution and interpretation of this method.

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Belgian national project on screw piles – Overview of the comparative load testing program; 2. Recommendations for Statnamic use and interpretation of piles installed in clay; 3. Load transfer in rapid load pile tests in clays; 4. Practice of rapid load testing in Japan; 5. Influence of rate effect and pore water pressure during Rapid Load Test of piles in sand; 6. Concrete stress determination in Rapid Load Tests; 7. Rapid Model pile load tests in the geotechnical centrifuge (1); 8. Rapid Model pile load tests in the geotechnical centrifuge (2): Pore pressure distribution and effects; 9. Database of field measurements of SLT and RLT for calibration; 10. Draft Standard for execution of a rapid load test

O autorze

Paul Hölscher, Frits van Tol