Pile Design

[Engr ZANIA]

Hi!!
Please recommend any good software to investigate the pile [highlight #EF2929]STRUCTURAL[/highlight] capacity

 

[JStructsteel]

Once you have the moments and shear, wouldn't any design software work for the code you need to follow?? Usually the hard part with piles is figuring out the loads into the pile.

 

[Engr ZANIA]

Right now I have find out the static capacity of piles based on soil data and applied load, how to determine the structural capacities/strength of Piles, like axial, shear and flexure strength

 

[Lomarandil]

Find the capacity just like any other beam-column.

In everything worth calling soil, you can consider it braced continuously below grade, although in some cases it's good to assume the top 0.5m of soil is not present.

One tricky part is that most concrete column interaction diagrams don't include reinforcing less than 1% (because that's a common minimum limit for above-grade columns), but that concrete drilled shafts or piles are often designed with as little as 0.5% reinforcing. Software can handle that just fine.

It's not part of the question you asked, but worth mentioning since it's often missed by young engineers -- don't forget that the shear and moment in the pile below grade can be *larger* than the applied shear and moment at the pile head.

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[structSU10]

Off of what Lomarandil says, you really need the shear and moment diagram from a pile analysis program if there are any lateral loads and end moments involved on the pile, as interaction with the soil affects the maximum shear and moment response.

 

[skeletron]

Make a spreadsheet that determines the interaction diagram as per the design code.

 

[Retrograde]

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