1st Edition

Application of Stress-Wave Theory to Piles: Quality Assurance on Land and Offshore Piling

Edited By J. Beim, S. Niyama Copyright 2000

    This work collates the topics discussed in the sixth International Conference on land and offshore piling. It covers topics such as: wave mechanics and its application to pile mechanics; driving equipment and developments; and pile integrity and low strain dynamic testing.

    Preface 1 Wave mechanics and its application to pile analysis, Keynote lecture: Some wave mechanics applications 2 Driving equipment and recent developments - New technologies for quality assurance of piles. Keynote lecture: Pile driving equipment: Capabilities and properties 3 Pile integrity and low strain dynamic testing, Keynote lecture: 0resundlink, grouting work under West Pylon: Integrity test of a giant pile 4 Pile-soil interaction Keynote lecture: Identification of soil-pile model interaction parameters from recorded time-displacement signals 5 Codes, Keynote lecture: The performance of the dynamic methods, their controlling parameters and deep foundation specifications 6 High strain dynamic testing of driven and cast in situ piles - Dynamic testing of large piles Keynote lecture: Pile acceptance criteria for large diameter and cast in situ piles 7 SPT measurements and special field monitoring test Keynote lecture: Frequency characteristics of stress wave and penetration during SPT 8 Vibratory pile driving - Vibration in pile driving Keynote lecture: Vibratory driving analysis 9 Statnamic and other similar techniques Keynote lecture: Statnamic, the engineering of art 10 Case histories, pile set-up and correlations between test methods - Prediction reliability Keynote lecture: Improving the reliability of pile bearing capacity prediction by the dynamic increasing energy test (DIET) 11 Supplement Keynote lecture: Retrospective of Sonic Integrety Tests - Its application to the control quality on piles.

    Biography

    Sussumu Niyama Institute for Technological Research - IPTf Sao Paulo, Brazil. Jorge Beim PDI Engenharia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.