Estimation of Load Capacity of Pipe Piles In Sand Based On Cone Penetration Test

Rodrigo Salgado

Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Kyuho Paik

Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Kwandong University, Kangwon-do, South Korea

Junhwan Lee

Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

This paper is part of the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 129, No. 6, June 1, 2003. ©ASCE, ISSN 1090-0241/2003/6-391–403.

Based on the method of installation, piles are classified as either displacement (driven) or nondisplacement (bored) piles. Pipe piles can be classified as either closed- or open-ended piles. In this paper, the pile load capacity of both closed- and open-ended driven piles in sand is investigated using fully instrumented field pile load tests and calibration chamber pile load tests. A total of 36 calibration chamber and 2 full-scale field load tests on closed- and open-ended piles were analyzed. All the test piles were instrumented for separate measurement of each pile resistance component.

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