I'm working on a site that has used 12 x 53 steel H piles for end bearing piles. I'd like to use these piles again (Grade 50), but I also need the pile for lateral capacity purposes. I'd like to embed the pile a minimum of 1 ft into a shale grading highly to moderately weathered, +/- 5,000 psi...
I'm a newbie to the forum! I've always had some difficulty interpreting the difference between fill materials vs. native soil materials when performing and logging SPT tests. I will appreciate people's thoughts, opinions, experiences and any online references/presentations addressing this...
