Full Scale Static Lateral Load Test Of A 9 Pile Group In Sand

Download or read book Full Scale Static Lateral Load Test of a 9 Pile Group in Sand written by Dustin Shaun Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The test on the single pile was modeled using the computer program LPILE Plus version 4.0 (Reese et al., 2000). The soil profile was calibrated by alternating the input soil parameters until the curves matched between the measured and the calculated results. The new soil profile was then used to model the test on the pile group using GROUP version 4.0 (Reese and Wang, 1996). A match was made between the measured test results and those calculated using GROUP by defining p-multipliers for each of the rows. For Cycle 1 the p-multipliers were found to be 1.0, .55, and .5 for Row 1 through Row 3 respectively. For Cycle 10 the p-multipliers were found to be the same as those for Cycle 1.