WAVE EQUATION ANALYSIS AND DYNAMIC MONITORING

The advent of the wave equation analysis during the 1960s through the 1970s was a quantum leap in modern foundation engineering. For the first time, the full complex of pile driving could be considered, that is, velocity dependent aspects (damping), soil deformation characteristics, soil resistance (total as well as its distribution of resistance along the pile shaft and between the pile shaft and the pile toe), hammer efficiency, hammer and pile cushions parameters, and other.