Title Authors Journal, Year

Behavior of Pile Subject to Excavation-Induced Soil Movement C. F. Leung, Y. K. Chow and R. F. Shen Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2000 Using the centrifuge model test to study the behavior of pile subject to excavation-induced soil movement

Objectives

Methodology

Centrifuge model tests were conducted at 50g, i.e. the model pile width was 12.6mm which simulates a prototype width of 630mm and etc. (refer to figure 1) Centrifuge tests were carried out to study the pile behavior at the back of retaining wall (stable or unstable).

Important findings

Stable retaining wall the maximum bending moment and pile deflection decreased exponentially as the pile was located further away from the retaining wall. (Figure 4) Pile head condition (fixed deflection-free rotation and fixed deflection and fixed rotation) make a great influence to the pile responses. (Figure 6) retaining wall collapse refer figure 5b, pile 1 and 2 m behind the retaining wall shows a significant lateral soil movement Comparison with theoretical predictions using the numerical method developed by Chow and Yong (1996) to back-analyze the centrifuge results. Refer to figure 9 for a free head single pile result shows the predicted and measured value - similar. Figure 10- discrepancies are noted along the upper pile shaft for the pile with fixed-fixed head restraint. Prediction in case of wall collapse figure 11 (outside the failure zone) and 12 within the failure zone.

Limitations

The model tests provide data that may be used to examine the usefulness of the analytical methods. However, the results do not validate any analytical procedure that is dependent on an accurate estimate of soil movements as, in practice, the reliability of these methods depends greatly on the reliability of estimating soil movements, which for most cases is a source of great uncertainty

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