Incorporating setup into load and resistance factor design of driven piles in sand

A comprehensive database is developed for the setup for piles driven into sand. Based on the compiled pile-testing data, pile setup is significant and continues to develop for a long time after pile installation. The statistical analysis shows that a logarithm-normal distribution can be used to describe the probabilistic characteristics of the predicted setup capacity using the Skov and Denver equation. The main objective of this paper is to incorporate the setup effect into a reliability-based load and resistance factor design (LRFD) of driven piles in sand. The first-order reliability method (FORM) is used to derive separate resistance factors that would account for different degrees of uncertainties associated with measured short-term capacity and predicted setup capacity. The incorporation of setup effects in the LRFD helps improve the prediction of total capacity of driven piles, resulting in more economical design. A practical design procedure within the LRFD framework to incorporate the pile setup ...

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