1st Edition

Screw Piles - Installation and Design in Stiff Clay

Edited By A.E. Holeyman Copyright 2001
338 Pages
by CRC Press

338 Pages
by CRC Press

This volume provides a snapshot of the current thinking and development perspectives on the installation and design of screw piles within the framework of Eurocode 7. The material included provides background on the various aspects of screw piles, with particular reference to stiff clays: 1. Exptensive description of a multi-million Euros research program on the loading behaviour of screw... Read more
Preface, Organisation, Acknowledgements, Contributions, Deep foundations and the need for research on screw piles in Belgium, Engineering geology of the Boom Clay in the Antwerp area, Soil investigation at Sint-Katelijne-Waver (Belgium), Design of axially loaded piles - 1997 Belgian practice, A database approach to overview pile loading tests on displacement screw piles in Western Europe - 1970-2000, Consideration on the influence of screw pile installation parameters on the overall pile behavious, Test campaign at Sint-Katelijne-Waver and installation techniques of screw piles, Results of the Static Pile Load Tests, Results of dynamic pile load tests and outcome of an international prediction event, Design procedure according to Eurocode 7 and analysis of the test results, International activities of ITC-18, Conclusions and perspectives, Author index

Biography

A.E. Holeyman