Alternative Title
Paper No. 1.17
Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
10 Mar 1998, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Abstract
In a special lecture held by the senior author at the Int. Conf. on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering in St. Louis (Hansbo, 1984) a follow-up was presented of the observations on two nearby buildings founded on deep deposits of soft clay according to different foundation principles. In one case the total load of the building is carried by friction piles with a factor of safety against failure equal to 3 while, in the other case, the load is partly carried by contact pressure at the raft/soil interface and partly by friction piles with a design load equal to creep failure. The presentation included about two years of observations of settlements, pile loads and contact stresses. In this paper a brief recapitulation of the foundation circumstances and the design of the two buildings will be made and the results of another 14 years of observation will be analysed. The observations include, besides the settlement distribution over the building areas, settlement at various depths, the pile loads and contact stress distribution and the excess pore pressure dissipation.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1998 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Hansbo, Sven and Jendeby, Leif, "A Follow-up of Two Different Foundation Principles" (1998). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 49.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/4icchge/4icchge-session01/49
A Follow-up of Two Different Foundation Principles
St. Louis, Missouri
In a special lecture held by the senior author at the Int. Conf. on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering in St. Louis (Hansbo, 1984) a follow-up was presented of the observations on two nearby buildings founded on deep deposits of soft clay according to different foundation principles. In one case the total load of the building is carried by friction piles with a factor of safety against failure equal to 3 while, in the other case, the load is partly carried by contact pressure at the raft/soil interface and partly by friction piles with a design load equal to creep failure. The presentation included about two years of observations of settlements, pile loads and contact stresses. In this paper a brief recapitulation of the foundation circumstances and the design of the two buildings will be made and the results of another 14 years of observation will be analysed. The observations include, besides the settlement distribution over the building areas, settlement at various depths, the pile loads and contact stress distribution and the excess pore pressure dissipation.
