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Assessment of base capacity of open-ended tubular piles installed by the Rotary Cutting Press-in method

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Ishihara, Y 
Koseki, J 

Abstract

The ‘press-in’ method is a piling technique that installs piles with a static jacking force while obtaining a reaction force from previously installed piles. The applicable ground conditions of this method have been significantly expanded by the ‘Rotary Cutting Press-in (RCP)’ method, whereby a vertical jacking force and a torque are applied simultaneously onto a pile with cutting teeth on its base while water is injected around the pile base. In this paper, a method to estimate the base capacity of RCP piles is proposed based on UWA-05 framework. The proposed method utilizes CPT or SPT results as input parameters and estimates the plugging condition (Incremental Filling Ratio, IFR) from these results. Four static load tests on open-ended RCP piles were shown to be well-predicted by the proposed method in terms of the base capacity, regardless of the embedment depth into a bearing stratum.

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Keywords

Rotary Cutting Press-in, Base capacity, Open-ended pile (IGC: E04/K07)

Journal Title

Soils and Foundations

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Journal ISSN

0038-0806

Volume Title

60

Publisher

Elsevier BV
Sponsorship
Giken Ltd