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Why Plate Load Test requires staged loads?
Hi Why nobody reply? TQ [sleeping]- malayboy
- Post #10
- Forum: Foundation engineering
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Why Plate Load Test requires staged loads?
Hi Focht3, It is a pedestrian bridge over a busy road on a rather flat surface on top of a very small hilly land. It is a cut area. Initially the design drawing was a RC pile foundation. Then we found out that one side of the road encountered bedrock at 3.5m below GL. So, we decided to change...- malayboy
- Post #9
- Forum: Foundation engineering
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Why Plate Load Test requires staged loads?
Hi all, I`m new to this forum. Found the HP today and it is a very intersting Q & A forum. I do have some questions on Plate Load Test. The following are my questions: 1. Why are there several loading cycles? The maximum % of loads apply on each cycles are different one another. I have...- malayboy
- Post #7
- Forum: Foundation engineering
