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Foundation Design and Construction for our Structural Brethren
Deep Foundation Design Basic Cookbook
A Presentation on Special Foundation Topics to the
Delaware Valley Association of Structural Engineers 4 February 2015
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Today’s Presenters
Marc Gallagher, P.E., LEEDAP
Michael Fritzges, P.E.
Senior Principal
New York Office
Project Engineer
Philadelphia Office
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Today’s Topics
• Deep Foundations
• Driven Piles – Types
– Benefits - Disadvantages
– Costs
– Equipment
• Drilled Piles – Types
– Benefits - Disadvantages
– Costs
– Equipment
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Deep Foundations Introduction
• When do we use deep foundations?
However, we can save 700 lira by not doing borings…..and I don’t think we need piles anyway….
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Deep Foundations Introduction
• When do we use deep foundations?
– Soft soils such as marsh/wetlands
– Poor fill in a loose condition
– Liquefiable soils
– High groundwater
– Contamination
– Very high foundation loads
– High loads in limited footprint
– Sensitive adjacent structures (subways)
– Reduce settlement
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Types of Deep Foundations
• Driven Piles
– Driven into the ground with impact hammer
• Drilled Elements
– Drilled hole filled with concrete/grout/steel
• Other
– Helical piles
– Rammed piers
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Driven Piles
• Basics
• Design theory
• Installation requirements
• Equipment
• Problems in Construction
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Driven Piles - Basics
• Pile driving has been around for 1000’s of years
• Pile hammer imparts energy to the pile to drive into
the ground
• Driving into harder material requires more energy
• More energy into the pile yields higher capacity
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Driven Piles - Basics
• Advantages – Relatively inexpensive
• $75-$100/ft for steel/concrete
• $25-$35/ft for timber
– Numerous contractors
– Material readily available
– Equipment fairly standard
– Equipment fairly low-tech
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Driven Piles - Basics
• Disadvantages
– Practically limited to
about 250 to 300 tons with the exception of very large marine applications
– Vibrations
– Noise
– Obstructions
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Driven Piles - Basics
• Timber
• H-Pile
• Pipe Pile
• Taper Piles
• Precast Concrete
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
• End bearing
• Side friction
• Combination
• Factor of Safety
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
tipsideult RRQ
FS
QQ ult
allow
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
• End bearing
– SPT (limited to 40N)
– Bearing Capacity
tiptiptip AqR *
qfctip NDcNBNq 2
1
B
LNq b
tip **4
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
• Sand – C=0
– Limited to Df = 10 to 20 * Diameter
• Clay – Last term ~ 0
– Nc = 9
qfctip NDcNBNq 2
1
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
• Side friction
– Sand
• Normal force & friction coefficient
– Clay
• Depends on the “cohesion” or Su (undrained shear strength)
frictionadhesionf side
perimetersides AfR *
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
• fs for cohesive reduces to first term
• fs for cohesionless reduces to second term
tan*'verticalsAs kcf
Ca = Adhesion factor relating cohesion to friction along shaft
ks = coefficient of lateral earth pressure (generally 1 to 2)
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
• Sand
• Rule of Thumb #1 – a 12” pile in dense
sand will give about 1 ton allowable
capacity per foot of embedment
perimeterhorizontaltipqfult AANDQ )tan*()(
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
• Clay
• Rule of Thumb #2 – Call a geotech for
piles in clay
perimeterAtipult AcAcQ ***9
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
• Load Transfer
– Load “shed” into soil along shaft
and at tip
– Side friction starts with little
displacement
– End bearing requires significant
displacement but can be up to
50% or more of capacity, even
for “friction” piles
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
• Group effects
– Acts more like a block than n individual piles
– Reduced capacity • Pgroup ≠ Psingle * n
– Both axial and lateral
– Increased settlement • Sgroup > Ssingle
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Driven Piles – Design Theory
• Factor of Safety on a design is directly
related to field verification program.
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Driven Piles – Installation
Requirements
• Driven to a resistance
• Called the “pile set”
• Referenced as Blows per inch or foot
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Driven Piles – Installation
Requirements
• ENR Formula
– Empirical based on 100 years of pile driving
experience
– Input hammer energy (weight * drop)
– Output required resistance or “set” (s)
01.0
**2
S
HeightWeightQ
DropHammer
allow
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Driven Piles – Installation
Requirements
• Wave Equation Analysis
– WEAP
– Computer analysis based on elastic (spring)
theories
– Input hammer type, pile type, soil properties
– Output a graph showing capacity v blow count
– Indicates estimated pile stresses – CRITICAL
FOR CONTRACTOR!
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Driven Piles - Equipment
• Pile driving rig
– Base unit is usually a crane
– Leads hold the pile and hammer
• Fixed
• Hanging
– Hammer
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Driven Piles - Equipment
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Driven Piles - Equipment
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Driven Piles - Equipment
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• Hammer Types – Gravity
– Steam
– Diesel
– Hydraulic
• Single Acting
• Double Acting
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Driven Piles – Installation Problems
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Driven Piles – Installation Problems
• Vibrations
• Obstructions (any)
• Sweep (pipe, tapered, H)
• Dog leg (pipe, tapered, H)
• Crumple (end bearing steel)
• Rupture (pipe, tapered)
• Breaks (timber, concrete)
• Yields (steel)
• Tension cracking (concrete)
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Drilled Piles
• Basics
• Design theory
• Installation requirements
• Equipment
• Problems during construction
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Drilled Piles - Basics
• Pile is drilled into the ground – not driven
• Very large diameter and very high capacities possible – essentially unlimited
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Drilled Piles - Basics • Advantages
– No vibrations – Limited noise – Can penetrate obstructions – Small rigs, limited access/headroom
• Disadvantages – Relatively expensive
• Micro-pile $200-$400/ft • Auger Cast $100-$200/ft • Drilled Shaft/Caissons $500-$2,500/ft
– Limited contractors – Materials can be limited – Equipment is highly specialized – Equipment often high-tech – Can be required to carry “unskilled” union contingent (operator,
mechanic, etc) who are not familiar with drilling
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Drilled Piles - Basics
• Micropiles
• Auger cast piles
• Drilled shafts
• Caissons
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Drilled Piles - Basics
• Micro-piles (mini-caissons)
– 50 to 500 tons
– 5 to 14 inches
– Casing, grout and reinforcement
– Drill with fluid to flush cuttings
– Pressurized in soil
– Soil or rock socket
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Drilled Piles - Basics
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Drilled Piles - Basics
• Drilled shafts – 500 to 5,000 tons+
– Very large diameters, up to 12 feet have been drilled
– Very high capacity
– Can be belled at the bottom
– Drilled with slurry to support hole
– Installed with casing
• Temporary or Permanent
– Difficult in glacial and fill areas
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Drilled Piles
- Basics
• Drilled
shafts
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Drilled Piles - Basics
• Caissons
– Really a drilled shaft into rock
– Large diameters
– Extremely high capacity-10,000 tons highest
to date?
– Casing and/or slurry for support
– Rock socket used for capacity
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Drilled Piles - Basics
• Auger cast piles
– 50 tons to 300 tons
– Typically 12 to 30 inches
– Larger diameters more common now
– Fast installation in right environment
– Relatively cheap
– Auger is screwed into the ground, concrete
injected as auger is withdrawn
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Drilled Piles – Design Theory
• Who designs drilled piles?
–There is no “I” in Team
• Geotechnical engineer = minimum length and
diameter of the pile, axial reinforcement
• Structural engineer = Pile connection and
verification of axial steel arrangement
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Drilled Piles – Design Theory
• Geotechnical - similar to driven piles – End bearing
– Side friction
– Combination
• Structural – Geotechnical capacity is typically much greater
than driven piles, therefore the structural design is often a limiting factor
– Typical ASD design per building code factors
– Rebar throughout length – “extra” in socket
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Drilled Piles – Design Theory
• Micropiles
– Ignore end bearing because small diameter
– Side friction only
– Gravity grouted
– Pressure grouted
– Typical friction values from published sources
AfP s *
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Drilled Piles – Design Theory
• Friction Values
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Drilled Piles – Design Theory
• Rule of Thumb #3 – “The Mazzo Rule” for dense sands
aves Nf *8.0
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Drilled Piles – Design Theory
• Drilled Shafts – End bearing and Side friction
– Gravity grouted
– FHWA is the main design manual used
– Design is the same as for a driven pile, based on adhesion and friction
Sand
Clay
perimeterhorizontaltipqfult AANDQ )tan*()(
tipsideult RRQ
perimeterAtipult AcAcQ ***9
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Drilled Piles – Design Theory
• Caissons – A drilled shaft in rock
– End bearing and side friction
– Gravity grouted
– Unit side shear and tip resistance based on strength of intact rock samples
• Adjusted for quality of rock mass
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Drilled Piles - Equipment
• Micropile rig – External flush
– Duplex
– Reverse
circulation
– Casing
– Tri-cone roller
bit
– Down-the-hole
hammer
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Drilled Piles - Equipment
• Expanding bit
“Numa” system
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Drilled Piles - Equipment
• Drilled Shaft
Rig
– Kelly Bar
– Rotary Table
– Augers
– Buckets
– Core Barrels
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Drilled Piles - Equipment
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Drilled Piles - Equipment
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Drilled Piles - Equipment
• Caisson Rig – Cluster drill
– Permanent or temporary casing
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Drilled Piles - Equipment
• Standard Auger
Cast Piles
– Continuous-flight
hollow-stem auger
– Generates high
volume of spoils
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Drilled Piles - Equipment
• Drilled
Displacement
– Specialized
drill bit
– Compacts
sidewall as
tool
advanced
– Higher
capacities
– Fewer
cuttings
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Drilled Piles – Installation Requirements
• Observations
– Drill pressure
– Speed of penetration
– Cuttings
– Rig reactions
– Grout “take”
– Grout/Concrete Properties
• Video
• Down hole inspection
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Drilled Piles – Construction Problems
• Collapse of hole
• Obstructions
• Filter cake on side wall
• Soft bottom
• Disturbance
• Seamy rock
• Unexpected depth increase
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Other Miscellaneous Types
• Helical Piles
– Typically for light loads
– Foundation repairs for
small structures
• Rammed Piers
– Drilled hole filled with
aggregate that is then
rammed
– Cheap
– Ground improvement
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General Installation Requirements
• Controlled Inspection – Record installation
– Count blows, estimate volumes, watch drill reactions
– Assess damage/problems
• Index Piles – Confirm conditions across site
– Test assumptions
– Calibrate models
• Load Tests – Confirm/Prove capacity
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Pile Load Testing
• Load testing required if:
– Design compressive loads are greater than those
specified by Code
– Design load in doubt
– Cast-in-place elements with enlarged base
• At least one load test in each area of uniform soil
conditions
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Pile Load Testing
• Load Tests
– ASTM standards (basically same as IBC)
– Apply a test load and hold for period of time • Generally 2x the design load as a minimum (FS=2)
• Generally 24 to 48 hours (creep assessment)
• “Quick” test procedure acceptable in certain circumstances
– Static
– Osterberg Cell (O-cell)
– Statnamic
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Pile Load Testing
• Static Load
Test Set Up
– Anchor piles
installed for
reaction
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Pile Load Testing
• Static Load
Test Set Up
– Dead weight
for reaction
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Pile Load Testing
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Pile Load Testing Applied Load vs. Settlement
PILE No. K-10-A
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1.0
0 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225
Applied Load (tons)
Se
ttle
me
nt
(in
ch
)
Avg. of Dial Gage Settlement
Elastic Comp. (Full Pile Length)
Pile No. K-10-A Tested 2/24-2/25/00
Pile Type: 7-in OD, 0.453" wall Oil Well Casing
Grout Filling: 4,000 psi Reinforcement: #20, #14
Design Load: 95 Tons
Pile Length: ??????
Pile Hammer: N/A - Drilled
Final Driving Resistance: N/A - Drilled
0.496 in.
Elastic Compression
(full load transfer to pile tip)
Measured Pile settlement due to
applied load
160 Ton Design Load
Settlement Approx 0.238 in 0. 469 in.
0.060 in.
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Pile Load Testing Applied Load vs. Settlement
PILE No. 294
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0 25 50 75 100 125 150
Applied Load (tons)
Sett
lem
en
t (i
nch
)
Avg. of Dial Gage Settlement First Load Cycle
Elastic Comp. (Full Pile Length)
Ave of Dial Gage Reading for Second Load Cycle
Elastic Comp (Load shed along pile within bearing stratum)
Pile No. 294 Tested 7/12-
7/19/00
Pile Type: 14" Butt Diameter, 8" Tip Diameter
Monotube
Concrete Filling: 4000 psi Reinforcement:
None
Design Load: 70 Tons
Pile Length: 42'
0.245 in.
0.133 in.
0.390 in.
Elastic Compression
(full load transfer to pile tip)
Measured Pile settlement due
to first cycle of applied load
70 Ton Design Load
Settlement Approx 0.13 in
Measured Pile settlement due
to second cycle of applied
load
0.055 in.
0.222 in.
Elastic Compression
(load shed along length of
pile embeded in bearing
stratum)
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Pile Load Testing Settlement vs. Time for 200% Design Load
PILE No. 294
0.00
0.01
0.02
0.03
0.04
0.05
0.06
0.07
0.08
0.09
0.10
100 1000 10000
Time (min)
Se
ttle
me
nt
(in
)
Ave. Incremental Settlement, in
63 hr 111 hr
48 hours0.012 inch/48 hours allowable
settlement as per NYCBC
Section C26-1107.1(e)(2)
0.003 inches
Pile No. 294 Tested 7/12-7/19/00
Pile Type: 14" Butt Diameter, 8" Tip Diameter Monotube
Concrete Filling: 4000 psi Reinforcement: None
Design Load: 70 Tons
Pile Length: 42'
Pile Hammer: Vulcan 08
Final Driving Resistance: 50 blows/12"
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Pile Load Testing
• O-Cell Load Test Set Up
• For drilled piles only
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General Installation Requirements
O-cell
O-cell
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General Installation Requirements
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General Installation Requirements
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Pile Load Testing
• Statnamic Load
Test Set Up
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Pile Load Testing
• Lateral Load Test Set Up
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Questions?
Marc Gallagher, PE mgallagher@langan.com
212-479-5408
Mike Fritzges, PE mfritzges@langan.com
215-864-0640
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