CPT-Based Axial Capacity Design Method for Driven Piles in Clay
Barry M. Lehane (University of Western Australia)
Zhongqiang Liu (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute)
Eduardo J. Bittar (University of Western Australia)
Farrokh Nadim (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute)
Suzanne Lacasse (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute)
Nezam Bozorgzadeh (Imperial College London)
Richard Jardine (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute)
Jean Christophe Ballard (Fugro )
Kenneth Gavin (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
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Abstract
There are clear advantages in the establishment of reliable, direct cone penetration test (CPT) based methods for assessment of the axial capacity of driven piles. These advantages motivated the formation of a joint industry project (JIP) under the management of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), which initially led to the creation of a unified database of high-quality pile load tests in sand and clay. The unified database has the consensus approval of representatives of the profession and personnel in multiple companies from the offshore energy sector. This paper presents a component of the research from the second phase of the JIP, which had the objective of developing a new CPT-based method for driven piles in clay to unify several CPT-based methods that are in use today. First, a rational basis for the CPT-based formulation is described, using trends from instrumented pile tests; the description facilitates an understanding of the approach and illustrates its empirical nature and limitations. The unified database was used to calibrate the formulation and it led to good predictions for an independent database of pile load tests and for measured distributions of shaft friction.