An experimental study on static and dynamic bending behaviour of piles in soft clay |
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Authors: | A Boominathan R Ayothiraman |
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Institution: | (1) Geotechnical Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600 036, Tamil Nadu, India;(2) Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India |
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Abstract: | Static and dynamic lateral load tests were carried out on model aluminium single piles embedded in soft clay to study its
bending behaviour. Model aluminium piles with length to diameter ratios of 10, 20, 30 and 40 were used. Static lateral load
tests were conducted on piles by rope and pulley arrangement upto failure and load–deflection curves were obtained. Dynamic
lateral load tests were carried out for different magnitudes of load ranging from 7 to 30 N at wide range of frequencies from
2 to 50 Hz. The load transferred to the pile, pile head displacement and the strain variation along the pile length were measured
using a Data Acquisition System. Safe static lateral load capacity for all piles is interpreted from load–deflection curves.
Dynamic characteristics of the soil–pile system were arrived from the acquired experimental data. The soil–pile system behaves
predominantly in nonlinear fashion even at low frequency under dynamic load. The displacement amplitude under dynamic load
is magnified by 4.5–6.5 times the static deflection for all piles embedded in soft clay. But, the peak magnification factor
reduces with an increase in the magnitude of lateral load mainly because of increase of hysteretic damping at very soft consistency.
The maximum BM occurs at the fundamental frequency of the soil–pile system. Even the lower part of the pile affects the pile
head response to the inertial load applied at the pile head. The maximum dynamic BM is magnified by about 1.5 times the maximum
static BM for model piles in tested consistency of clay. The maximum dynamic BM occurs at a depth of about 1.5 times the depth
of maximum static BM for model piles, which indicates an increase of active pile length under dynamic load. |
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Keywords: | Active length Bending moment Clay Dynamics Laterally loaded pile Magnification factor |
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