The settlement for group piles in coarse-grained soils from SPT and cone penetration

tests can be estimated from:

SPT: es =

Cone es =

where:

360 z I Bg
N cor
z IBg

2qc

(mm)

(8.44)

(8.45)

I = 1 0.08

L
0.5 ,
Bg

z is the stress increase at a depth of

2L
, i.e.,
3

Qa
z

2
2

Bg + L L g + L

3
3

Bg and Lg are the width and length of the pile group, L is the embedded length of the pile,
and qc is the arithmetic average of the cone resistance over two pile diameters below the
cone tip.