<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The aim of the paper is to provide some aspects regarding the behaviour of laterally loaded piles in loessial soils, by presenting and analysing the results of several in situ tests on large diameter bored piles in this type of soil. The major feature of loess is that it exhibits a massive decline of its strength and stiffness parameters when it comes into contact with water, leading to the collapse of its structure even under self-weight and creating difficult conditions for foundations. The load tests were performed both in natural moisture content loess and also in saturated loess. The results obtained by means of instrumentation are back-analysed using current analytical methods and also by finite element method using a numerical model in the geotechnical computation software Plaxis 3D.</p></abstract>

The aim of the paper is to provide some aspects regarding the behaviour of laterally loaded piles in loessial soils, by presenting and analysing the results of several in situ tests on large diameter bored piles in this type of soil. The major feature of loess is that it exhibits a massive decline of its strength and stiffness parameters when it comes into contact with water, leading to the collapse of its structure even under self-weight and creating difficult conditions for foundations. The load tests were performed both in natural moisture content loess and also in saturated loess. The results obtained by means of instrumentation are back-analysed using current analytical methods and also by finite element method using a numerical model in the geotechnical computation software Plaxis 3D.

In Situ Lateral Load Tests on Instrumented Bored Piles in Loessial Soils

Modelling in Civil Environmental Engineering

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The aim of the paper is to provide some aspects regarding the behaviour of laterally loaded piles in loessial soils, by presenting and analysing the results of...

In Situ Lateral Load Tests on Instrumented Bored Piles in Loessial Soils

Published Online: May 13, 2017

Page range: 1 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mmce-2017-0001

Keywords
laterally loaded piles, loessoil soils, Finite Element Method

© by Sebastian Drăghici

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

In Situ Lateral Load Tests on Instrumented Bored Piles in Loessial Soils

Published Online: May 13, 2017

Page range: 1 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mmce-2017-0001

Keywordslaterally loaded piles, loessoil soils, Finite Element Method

© by Sebastian Drăghici

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
laterally loaded piles, loessoil soils, Finite Element Method