This book presents a detailed blueprint for developing experimental facilities necessary to control the behavior of piles during installation and loading. There is sufficient detail to allow readers to duplicate or modify the design to suit their own needs.

One of the major difficulties in predicting the capacity of pipe piles in sand has resulted from a lack of understanding of the physical processes that control the behavior of piles during installation and loading.

This monograph presents a detailed blue print for developing experimental facilities necessary to identify these processes. These facilities include a unique instrumented double-walled pipe-pile that is used to delineate the frictional stresses acting against the external and internal surfaces of the pile. The pile is fitted with miniature pore-pressure transducers to monitor the generation of pore water pressure during installation and loading. A fast automatic laboratory pile hammer capable of representing the phenomena that occur during pile driving was also developed and used.

Presents a detailed blue print for developing experimental facilities necessary to control the behavior of piles during installation and loading The experimental apparatus is presented with sufficient details to allow readers to duplicate or modify the design to suit their own needs Written by a leading expert in the field

Inhalt
Introduction.- Review of Design Guidelines for Piles in Sand.- Installation Effects on The Capacity of Piles in Sand.- Experimental Facilities to Study the Behavior of Piles.- Instrumented Double-Wall Pipe Pile.- Electro-Pneumatic Pile Hammer for Laboratory Applications.- Geotechnical Properties of the Test Sand.- Similitude Between Model and FullScale Piles.- Load Tests on The DoubleWall Pipe Pile in Sand.- Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations.