Soil Mechanics A timber pile of length 8m and diameter of 0.2m is driven with a 20 kN drop hammer, falling freely from a height of 1.5 m. The total penetration of the pile in the last 5 blows is 40mm. Use the Engineering News Record expression. Assume a factor of safety of 6 and empirical factor (allowing reducing in the theoretical set, due to energy losses) of 2.5 cm. The safe load carrying capacity of the pile (in kN, round off to 2 decimal places) is

Soil Mechanics A timber pile of length 8m and diameter of 0.2m is driven with a 20 kN drop hammer, falling freely from a height of 1.5 m. The total penetration of the pile in the last 5 blows is 40mm. Use the Engineering News Record expression. Assume a factor of safety of 6 and empirical factor (allowing reducing in the theoretical set, due to energy losses) of 2.5 cm. The safe load carrying capacity of the pile (in kN, round off to 2 decimal places) is

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Chapter12: Pile Foundations

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Problem 12.8P: Consider a 500 mm diameter pile having a length of 18 m in a clay. Given: γ = 20.0 kN/m3 and cu = 60...

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