When is a pile too short?
When is a pile too short?
(OP)
When designing piles/bored piers for lateral loads what is the limiting depth at which it ceases to behave as a laterally loaded pile and instead behaves as a spread footing? Is there a minimum embedment depth as a ratio of the pile diameter?





RE: When is a pile too short?
Run L-Pile or do hand calcs using a variety of different soil strata and you'll see.
RE: When is a pile too short?
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RE: When is a pile too short?
In my particular case because of design considerations we are using vastly oversized piled and loads are small. We have a 3m x 2.5m plan shelter and we are using 750mm diameter piles. Using the Brinch Hansen method (BHPile) the calculated pile depth is only about 1 diameter. I suspect the method and the software are not appropriate for these conditions but I can't find any reference to say what the validity limits are.
RE: When is a pile too short?
http://www.soilstructure.com/
RE: When is a pile too short?