The pile has been widely used in the engineering works and all kinds of foundation of a construction since early times. The construction structure becomes complicated gradually according to the development of an industry and the load condition of the ...
The pile has been widely used in the engineering works and all kinds of foundation of a construction since early times. The construction structure becomes complicated gradually according to the development of an industry and the load condition of the structure becomes complicated accordingly. It is necessary that the appropriate study on the movements of piles and the interaction between the piles and grounds under the complicated loading condition in order to design piles safely and economically for the various purpose of uses.
The pile is the member that transfers the vertical load from the upper construction structure to the ground. Studies on the pile has been done since early times and they are usefully used for the design. However, if the structure supported by a pile receives lateral part earth pressure such as the earth pressure, wind pressure, wave activated force etc. the head part of the pile get the horizontal force and bending moment as well as the vertical force at the same time. In case of the old design approach for the pile, this kind of horizontal force was not reviewed in details. However, recently, the studies on the pile design with the horizontal bearing capacity are being actively conducted domestically and internationally in line with the development of large-sized structures.
As to the lateral bearing capacity theory on the pile, the methods proposed by Brinch Hansen, Broms, Chang and Reese & Matlock etc. are used.
Especially, when the lateral bearing capacity of the pile is evaluated, the strain wedge theory which considers the passive resistance of the ground effectively is being proceeded with the detailed research and it is applied for the practical design works. However, in Korea, studies on the behavior characteristic of the pile, group pile efficiency, the load sharing and subgrade reaction (p-y curve) are insufficient in comparison with the importance of the group piles with lateral bearing capacity and in case of the group piles, the various analysis on the behavior of the pile is not done in comparison with the single pile due to the difficulty in the modeling test.
This study is theoretical study which propose the behavior characteristic of the pile against laterial bearing capacity of the group pile based on the distance between the piles and proposes the formula which consists of the functions with the distance between the piles and the strength of the ground on the limit resistance force of the strain wedge theory by abbreviating stress bulb of the pile with polygon. The modeling test is conducted for this in the lab and the test result is compared with the existing formula. In order to do that, p-y curve drawing method is proposed by using bending moment of the pile which is measured from the test result and the interaction effect on the group pile is also studied by conducting the group pile test by distance.
As a result of the lab test, in case of the result on the single pile, there is big difference between the test result and the existing formula and it appears that the difference is originated from some considerable factors - the existing formula is based on the limitation of the pile for application and the test result in the lab is based on the ground failure. As a result of the test on the group pile, bearing capacity of each pile in the group pile is reduced in comparison with the bearing capacity of the single pile due to the interaction between the piles but it is not reduced as a constant proportion in the load - displacement relation, that means, the load-displacement behavior of the group pile is different from the load and displacement of the single pile.
And there is a range which shows same behavior with the single pile in case of over specific distance between the piles, that means, interaction effect between piles in the group pile is closely related to the distance between the piles and the
loading to the pile.