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Jetty Structure - Tension in Steel Piles

Jetty Structure - Tension in Steel Piles

Jetty Structure - Tension in Steel Piles

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Hello Everyone,
We (me and my other two colleages) have designed a jetty structure having 2.5 km long. Structure was composed of a combination of 2 ( battered only in transverse direction at some locations) piles connected with a RC cap beam. Longitudinally the structure is connected with 2 I girders and CIP slab on top of them ( used for access road) and oil pipe line itself.
Piles are , at max. up to 60 m in length and they are partially in air then sea water then in sand , then in clay and touching the bed rock. We had to define whole structure in our model simply because the oil pipeline was continuous almost 750 meter long and every 750 meter there was an "S" in the pipe line. We performed response spectrum analysis using Maximum credible earthquake parameters.
Since we have got some excessive pile end forces (in tension ) at some locations , piles had to be anchored to the bed rock. For this purpose, some rock anchors are designed to take care of this force. As you know this rock anchor construction at a 60 meter deep is a quite difficult task to be performed for contractor.
For the seismic effects, we made use of reduction factors only for moments.
Indeed in seismic actions, (if the ends of piles not anchored to the bed rock) some slippage will be occurring b/w piles and the surrounding soil (clay and sand) and this will cause dissipation of seismic energy by frictional forces around the piles. Eventually this effect will reduce seismic forces and also axial tensile forces.Bu this effect can not be modelled quiet precisely in any Structural analysis program.

What reasonable reduction  factor can we assume to reduce our tensile forces at the tip of piles? or Should we make the analysis using different techniques ( such as time history analysis or push over analysis )

Is there anyone who might have faced such a problem before ?

Comments will be highly appreciated.

Thanks to all.

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