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As Shown in the Figure the Soil is clayey in Nature upto 4m, and
Soft Disintegrated Rock upto 15m. Hard Rock is available at a depth of
15m beneath the Abutment as well as Piers. And the nature of soil for
Abutments and Piers are same.
Proposed Pile arrangement beneath Pier : The Proposed Piles of 1m
Diameter beneath the Pier are as follows .
0.8m
2.5m
2.5m
0.8m
0.8m
2.5m
0.8m
The Length of Pile Cap is 6.6 m in either direction . The spacing of Piles
is 2.5m in either direction and therefore 2.5d where d is the diameter of
Pile ( 1m dia Pile).
The Maximum Load on Pile is 185t .The arrangement has been adopted
from that of another Bridge constructed 2 years back about 100Km
away. .The Spans of that Bridge is Similar but the height of that Bridge is
6.5m and it was constructed with RCC trestles. The Piles were Designed as
End Bearing Piles and Socketted into Hard Rock but the Max Load there
was only 175t.
PROPOSED PILE ARRANGEMENT BENEATH ABUTMENT WITH
SQUARE RETURNS
0.8m
2.5m
2.5m
2.5m
0.8m
2.5m
2.5m
2.5m
The Length of Pile Cap is 9.1m in either Direction. The Spacing of Piles
is 2.5m i.e 2.5d .
The maximum Load coming on Piles is only 103 tonnes.
3.75m
3.75m
2.5m
2.5m
2.5m
9.1m
3.75m
3.75m
3.75m
3.75m
9.1m
Regards
Ashish Juneja
Dr Ashish Juneja
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai 40 0076
Tel. 2576 7327
Fax. 2576 7302
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04.01.2006
Dear Mr Meher,
Received your e-mail. I have to inform you as follows :
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V.T.SHELAR
B.E.(Civil), MIE
Chartered Engineer
(Bridge Designer)
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From: pkbd@iitk.ac.in
To:
Dear Mr.Meher,
Wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Sorry for delayed
reply to your enquiry.
In a group piles act independently if the spacing
is at about 6D. 3.5D in
that sense not very large when the piles would
act independently. There
will be some interference and most probably the
piles would act as a
group. Thus, group efficiency need to be
estimated. As the piles would be
socketed in rock that would have large bearing
capacity.
Hope this clarifies your doubt.
Yours sincerely,
Basudhar
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Dear Rama Meher:
Thanks for your query. I am presently in
Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota
spacing of 3.75d is
acceptable provided that the following are OK.
1. The design of pile cap should be accordingly
done.
2. The total horizontal force per pile should not
exceed 5% of the
vertical load (Please check the IS Code).
3. If it is a short pile ,no tensile load is
allowable.
4. Torsional moments if any should be taken care
of.
5. Max spacing as per IS codes may please be
reverified (I think it id 6 d).
If you need more clarifications, please let me
know. Best wishes.
Kameswara Rao
Professor N.S.V. Kameswara Rao |Tel:60-88-320000
Ext: 3045(O),431746(R)
School of Engineering and IT
|Fax:60-88-320348,
HP: 016-8432466,8440784
Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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I have spoken on Telephone to Nihar Ranjan Patra, Faculty at
IITK and he expressed that 3.75 d Pile Spacing can be adopted for the
above Problem.