Rapid Load Testing on Piles

Paul Hölscher, Frits van Tol

• Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Belgian national project on screw piles – Overview of the comparative load testing program; 2. Recommendations for Statnamic use and interpretation of piles installed in clay; 3. Load transfer in rapid load pile tests in clays; 4. Practice of rapid load testing in Japan; 5. Influence of rate effect and pore water pressure during Rapid Load Test of piles in sand; 6. Concrete stress determination in Rapid Load Tests; 7. Rapid Model pile load tests in the geotechnical centrifuge (1); 8. Rapid Model pile load tests in the geotechnical centrifuge (2): Pore pressure distribution and effects; 9. Database of field measurements of SLT and RLT for calibration; 10. Draft Standard for execution of a rapid load test

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