Displacement pile installation effects in sand

Installation effects govern the post-installation behaviour of displacement piles in sand. These effects are currently not completely understood. Suitable experimental techniques to model these installation effects include field, laboratory and experimental models. In the current thesis a small-scale laboratory model is used to investigate the...

On the modelling of piles in sand in the small geotechnical centrifuge

The use of a geotechnical centrifuge for properly capturing the mechanisms in the sand adjacent to a foundation pile is well established. Larger centrifuge facilities were previously preferred over small centrifuges, because of the difficulties of the required miniature instrumentation. The technology since then has moved on and recent technical...