PILE DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE

Chapter 1: General principles and practices. 1.1 Function of piles. 1.2 Historical. 1.3 Calculations of load-carrying capacity. 1.4 Dynamic piling formula. 1.5 Code of practice requirements. 1.6 Responsibilities of engineer and contractor. Chapter 2: Types of pile. 2.1 Classification of piles. 2.2 Driven large displacement pile. 2.3 Driven-and-cast-in-place displacement piles. 2.4 Replacement piles. 2.5 Composite piles. 2.6 Factors governing choice of type of pile. Chapter 3: Piling equipment and methods. 3.1 Equipment for driven piles. 3.2 Equipment for installing driven-and-cast-in-place piles. 3.3 Procedures in pile installation. 3.5 Constructing piles in-groups. Chapter 4: Calculating the resistance of piles to compressive loads. 4.1 General considerations. 4.2 Piles in cohesive soils. 4.3 Piles in cohensionless soil. 4.4 Piles in soils intermediate between sand clays. 4.5 Piles in layered cohesive and cohensionless soils. 4.6 The settlement of the single pile at the working. 4.7 Piles bearing on rock. 4.8 Piles in fill-negative skin friction. Chapter 5: Pile groups under compressive loading. 5.1 Group action in piled foundations. 5.2 Pile groups in cohesive soils. 5.3 Pile groups in cohensionless soils. 5.4 Deep pile groups in cohesive and cohensionless soils. 5.5 Pile groups terminating in rock. 5.6 Pile groups in filled ground. 5.7 Effects on pile groups of installation methods. 5.8 Precautions against heave effects in pile groups. 5.9 Pile groups beneath basements. 5.10 The optimization of pile groups to reduce differential settlements in clay. Chapter 6: The design of piled foundations to resist uplift and lateral loading. 6.1 The occurrence of uplift and lateral loading. 6.2 Uplift resistance of piles. 6.3 Single vertical 6.4 Lateral loads on raking piles. 6.5 Lateral loads on groups of piles. 6.6 Effects of adjacent surcharge loading on pile groups. . Chapter 7: The structural design of piles and pile groups. 7.1 General design requirements. 7.2 Designing reinforced concrete piles-for lifting after fabrication. 7.3 Designing piles to resist driving stresses. 7.4 The effects of bending on piles below ground level. 7.5 The design of axially loaded piles as columns. 7.6 Lengthening piles. 7.7 Bonding piles with caps and ground beams. 7.8 The design of piles caps. 7.9 The design of pile capping beams and connecting ground beams. Chapter 8: Piling for marine structures. 8.1 Berthing structures and jetties. 8.2 Fixed offshore platforms. Chapter 9: Miscellaneous piling problems. 9.1 Piling for machinery foundations. 9.2 Piling for underpinning. 9.3 Piling in mining subsidence areas. 9.4 Piling in frozen ground. Chapter 10: The durability of piled foundations. 10.1 General. 10.2 Durability and protection of timber piles. 10.3 Durability and protection of concrete piles. 10.4 Durability and protection of steel piles. Chapter 11: Site investigation, piling contracts, pile testing. 11.1 Site investigation. 11.2 Piling contracts and specifications. 11.3 Control of pile installation. 11.4 Load testing of piles. 11.5 Test for the structural integrity of piles.

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