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TEST PILE PROGRAM TO DETERMINE AXIAL CAPACITY AND PILE SETUP FOR THE BILOXI BAY BRIDGE (2009)

The results of the test pile program established driving criteria for production piles that included end of- drive blow counts and pile tip elevations with an appropriate allowance for setup. The program also confirmed that the planned installation equipment and techniques of GC Constructors, a joint venture of Massman Construction Co., Kiewit Southern Co., and Traylor Bros., Inc., would install the piles to the design tip elevations before production piles began. An extensive program of restrike measurements at a range of times after initial driving of the indicator piles provided a systematic documentation of pile setup in the soil profiles on the site. These resistance values were used to develop a dimensionless setup factor "S" as the ratio of the restrike resistance to the end of drive resistance.
Reference:
DFI Journal Volume 3, No. 1, May 2009, Deep Foundations Institute, pp13-22.
Organization:
Dan Brown and Associates, USA
USA
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