Kinematics of piled embankments with defective piles

Louis King, Abdelmalek Bouazza, Stephen Dubsky

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Abstract

Defective piles within piled embankments have the ability to cause significant project delays and require costly remedial works. At present, the ability of the load transfer platform and embankment fill to redistribute loads away from defective piles and reduce differential settlements that develop between defective and non-defective piles is not well understood. Synchrotron X-ray computed tomography was performed on a small scale model piled embankment comprising a defective pile with digital volume correlation analysis implemented on pairs of reconstructed volumes to study the kinematics of soil arching above a defective pile. Results indicate that a plane of equal settlement can still develop above a defective pile.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of China-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering
EditorsWei Wu, Hai-Sui Yu
Place of PublicationCham Switzerland
PublisherSpringer
Pages1682-1686
Number of pages5
Volume2
ISBN (Electronic)9783319971155
ISBN (Print)9783319971148
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
EventChina-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering 2016 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 13 Aug 201616 Aug 2016
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319971148

Conference

ConferenceChina-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering 2016
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period13/08/1616/08/16
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Keywords

  • Computed tomography
  • Defective pile
  • Piled embankments

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