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Piles and Pile Foundations book cover

1st Edition

Piles and Pile Foundations

By Carlo Viggiani, Alessandro Mandolini, Gianpiero Russo Copyright 2012
296 Pages
by CRC Press

296 Pages
by CRC Press

296 Pages
by CRC Press
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Piled foundations are generally designed using empirical methods, in particular the traditional capacity based approach on which the majority of codes of practice are based. However in recent years the analysis of pile groups and piled rafts has undergone substantial development in the light of new research and the mechanisms for the interactions between piles, soil and rafts or caps have been... Read more

Introduction

Part 1. General

1. Drained and undrained conditions; total and effective stress analysis

2. Review of pile types

3. Design issues

Part 2. Present practice of piled foundations design under vertical loads

4. Bearing capacity under vertical load

5.  Settlement

6. Soil-structure interaction and the design of pile cap

7. Pile testing

Part 3. Present practice of piled foundations design under horizontal loads

8. Bearing capacity under horizontal load

9. Displacements and bending moments

Part 4. Analysis and design of piled rafts

10. Piled rafts

Biography

Carlo Viggiani is Professor of Foundation Engineering at the University of Napoli Federico II and has been a member of the International Committee for the Safeguard of the Tower of Pisa.



Gianpiero Russo is Associate Professor of Foundation Engineering at the University of Napoli Federico II, Italy.



Alessandro Mandolini is Professor of Foundation Engineering at the Second University of Napoli, Italy.

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