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  • The experimental estimation of the pile skin bearing capacity [Elektronski vir]
    Štrukelj, Andrej, 1962- ; Lipnik, Gorazd ; Pšunder, Mirko
    Near Maribor, the new bridge over the river Drava is being under construction. Before the main works actually start the static and dynamic loading tests of piles were performed. The goal of the ... static loading test was to determine the bearing capacitiy of the test pile. It was also interesting to find out the rate of the loading force distributed on the skin and pile toe. In order to measure the distribution of the axial force along the pile, the specially made steel canal was built in the pile before concreting. Inside this canal the strain gauges were distributed evenly at the distance of one meter. The strains were measured for each loading phase in all measuring points. The distribution of the axial force was estimated from obtained results and from the distribution of the axial force the skin resistance could be considered. The unexpected high bearing capacity of the pile skin made the obtained results very interesting. In the paper the measuring methods and results are discused.
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2002
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 7523606