Research on bearing capacity of inclined pile under vertical load
Inclination of piles may occur due to different reasons. How to determine the bearing capacity of inclined piles is a tough problem in practice. Field load tests on inclined piles, the required characteristics of soil for FEM analysis were obtained to conduct numerical analysis. The bearing capacities of piles with different degrees of inclination under different soil conditions were studied. It was shown that the settlement of piles was obviously influenced by the soil conditions, and that under the same vertical load the settlement of piles with the degree of inclination no more than 5 percent was even smaller, but the settlement of piles with the degree of inclination more than 5 percent increase obviously. With the inclination increases its bearing capacity is decreased obviously, thus the degree of inclination is the main factor of which control the vertical bearing capacity of inclined piles.
Effect of Pile Leaning on Pile's Carrying Capacity
Using static press on prestressed pipe pile foundation in fluid and plastic sludge floor,the eccentricity is easy to exceed the criterion of the acceptance specification because of the improper control of pressing the pile,earth excavate etc.This has been a kind of “common fault of the quality”. Through engineering example,the paper gives a way on how to use the eccentric pile after analyzing the theory according to related technical specification.
Archaeological Survey of Dangoyama Kofun by 3DGPR
We presented a three-dimensional ground penetrating radar (3DGPR) system for the archeological investigation in a harsh site, where we have to deal with many trees and/or great topographic variations. This system consists of a commercial GPR system with a laser positioning system. With this system, we can move the GPR antenna freely, on which a positioning detector can record accurate position for each GPR data trace. We applied our 3DGPR system at Dangoyama Kofun, a burial mound, in Fukushima prefecture, Japan. A lot of trees and bushes covered the survey area and cannot be cut. We acquired six datasets in two days in this area. We successfully imaged the boundary between the original surface of the burial mound and the covering soil clearly at about 0.3 m depth around the mound. Furthermore, we found some strong reflections appeared at 0.8 m depth in the top area of the mound, which can be from the artificial parts of the burial mound. The results would greatly aid the following archaeological excavation. In addition, we compared the non-interpolated depth slice with interpolated depth slice at same position and demonstrated that the interpolation process on threedimensional GPR data may introduce some artifacts which might mislead our interpretation.