Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- A simplified solution for predicting the response of rigid piles due to lateral soil movement
- In
- 11th Australia - New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Melbourne 2012
- Imprint
- 2012, pp. 1183-1188
- Description
Eng How Ghee, is an engineer with Arup Geotechnics, and Wei Dong Guo, is at School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering, University of Wollongong
[This paper was awarded the W. H. Warren Medal 2012]
- Abstract
The design of a pile subjected to lateral soil movement often requires detail soil parameters in order to undertake a rational design. While the available design methods are generally based on numerical approaches, the fundamental question to be answered is the relationship between the magnitude of soil movement, the pressure profile on the pile shaft, and the way that the load is transferred along the pile shaft. This paper first proposes a relation between the magnitude of soil movement and the pressure acting on the pile shaft from the observation of a number of model scale tests reported by the authors. Subsequently, a simplified solution is proposed to analyse a rigid pile subjected to lateral soil movement by the mean of calculating the pressure distribution acting along the pile shaft. The simplified solution is able to provide sufficiently accurate means in predicting the bending moment and the shear force profiles from the calculated pressure distribution acting along the pile shaft. Two case studies are presented in order to demonstrate the ability of the simplified solution in predicting the
actual pile response.