Battered Auger Cast Piles
Battered Auger Cast Piles
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Does anyone have information whether or not it would be possible to build a 1:5 battered ACP? The structural engineer requested lateral load analyses for both a vertical and a pile with the above batter...I'm not so sure it could be built. Site is in coastal Mississippi with 27 feet medium dense sand over soft clay; pile length is 75', pile diameter is 16 inches.





RE: Battered Auger Cast Piles
RE: Battered Auger Cast Piles
RE: Battered Auger Cast Piles
I read once, from a FHWA source I think, that battered piles highly increased shear forces on pile caps as observed substructures after earthquakes that failed in punching shear. Unless this conditions are actually attended in new codes. The author stated that vertical piles may provide enough lateral capacity based on new, in that time, developed methods (as subgrade modulus and py curves) used in modern geotechnical engineering.
RE: Battered Auger Cast Piles