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Title: A pressuremeter method for single piles subjected to cyclic lateral loads in sand
Authors: Texas A & M University. Department of Civil Engineering
United States. Minerals Management Service
United States. Federal Highway Administration
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Lower Mississippi Valley Division
Little, Robert L.
Briaud, J.-L.
Keywords: Cohesionless soils
Single piles
Piling
Cyclic lateral loading
Pressuremeter
Soil mechanics
Sandy soils
Sand
Dynamic testing
Publisher: Geotechnical Laboratory (U.S.)
Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.)
Series/Report no.: Miscellaneous paper (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station) ; GL-88-14.
Description: Miscellaneous Paper
Abstract: A method is proposed to predict the response of piles in sand subjected to cyclic horizontal loading on the basis of cyclic pressuremeter tests. This method is an extension of the pressuremeter method proposed for piles subjected to monotonic horizontal loading. The pressuremeter-derived monotonic P-y curve is reduced by a multiplier N⁻ª to obtain the cyclic PN⁻ª- y curve. The parameter a is obtained readily from cyclic pressuremeter tests. This pressuremeter method was used to predict the response of a 10.75-in.-diam pipe pile embedded in 9.5 ft of sand and subjected to two-way cyclic horizontal loads with full reversal of loading. This pressurernet er method was also used to predict the response of 12 model pile tests in sand subjected to one-way and two-way cyclic horizontal loads. In addition, a data base of full-scale cyclic horizontal load tests was analyzed. The results show that (A.) two-way cyclic horizontal loading of piles in sand leads to minimal if not negligible degradation, (B.) one-way cyclic horizontal loading of piles in sand leads to significant degradation, (C.) the proposed method predicts with very good accuracy the degradation of piles in sand subjected to one-way cyclic horizontal loads, and (D.) the proposed method cannot predict the degradation (or lack of it) of piles in sand subjected to two-way cyclic horizontal loads because the pressuremeter is a one-way cyclic test. NOTE: This file is large. Allow your browser several minutes to download the file.
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11681/10127
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