This international handbook is essential for geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists responsible for designing and constructing piled foundations. It explains general principles and practice and details current types of pile, piling equipment and methods.
It includes calculations of the resistance of piles to compressive loads, pile groups under compressive loading, piled foundations for resisting uplift and lateral loading and the structural design of piles and pile groups. Marine structures, miscellaneous problems (including machinery foundations, underpinning, mining subsidence areas, contracts and frozen ground), durability of piled foundations, ground investigations, and pile testing are also covered.
It introduces the 2005 version of Eurocode7, BS 8004 and other codes, and refers to BS 6349 on maritime structures, and new forms of civil engineering contracts suitable for piling projects. It includes numerous worked examples to the codes, many based on actual problems. It also gives very comprehensive information for students
Preface to Fifth Edition
Preface to First Edition
Chapter 1 : General Principles and Practices
Chapter 2 : Types of Pile
Chapter 3 : Piling Equipment and Methods
Chapter 4 : Calculating the Resistance of Piles to Compressive Loads
Chapter 5 : Pile Groups under Compressive Loading
Chapter 6 : The Design of Piled Foundations to Resist Uplift and Lateral Loading
Chapter 7 : Some Aspect of the Structural Design of Piles and Pile Groups
Chapter 8 : Piling for Marine Structures
Chapter 9 : Miscellaneous Piling Problems
Chapter 10 : The Durability of Piled Foundations
Chapter 11 : Ground Investigations, Piling Contracts, Pile Testing
Appendix : Properties of Materials
Name Index
Subject Index