Reinforcement in concrete piles embedded in sand
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Abstract
In this study, the necessity of reinforcement in concrete pile (bored or driven) is assessed. The soil was assumed to be unsaturated and homogeneous sandy soil. Throughout the study, a finite element computer program was used and the pile was modeled as a beam-on-elastic foundation. The soil is represented by discrete spring. The stiffness of each spring is considered to be linearly variable with depth. The moment loading, lateral loading, pile length, pile diameter, in addition to the angle of internal friction and soil density were taken as parameter to study their effect on the extent of reinforcement along the pile shaft. It is concluded that for piles embedded in sand, a length of reinforcement not less than 40 of pile length for bored piles and 20 for driven piles is needed.
Keywords
Sand reinforcement requirements bored piles driven piles pile reinforcement laterally loaded piles
Divisions
sch_civ
Publication Title
International Journal of the Physical Sciences
Volume
5
Issue
15
Publisher
Academic Journals
Additional Information
ISI Document Delivery No.: 709IB Times Cited: 0 Cited Reference Count: 35 Salman, Firas A. Mohammed, Mohammed M. Shirazi, S. M. Jameel, Mohammed Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM) RG086/10AET The authors would like to acknowledge and extend gratitude to the University of Malaya for the encouragement, technical support, and especially for the financial support by the Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM) under UMRG grant number (RG086/10AET). Academic journals Victoria island