On the Modelling of Pile Installation

Doctoral thesis (2009)

Authors

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A.F. Van Tol (promotor)
Programme
Geo-Engineering (CEG) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2009 Dijkstra, J.
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Published Date

15-12-2009

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Programme

Geo-Engineering

Abstract

This thesis introduces two different types of physical model tests to investigate the stress and density change in the soil during installation of a jacked pile as well as two numerical modelling approaches to model the same process in a finite element code capable of large deformations.