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Experimental Investigation on Skin Friction of Micropiles in Soft Clay
2nd International Conference on Civil Engineering: Recent Applications and Future Challenges
Structural and Construction Engineering
Abstract
This paper deals with the investigation of experimental models of skin friction of the axially loaded on micropiles have different length to diameter ratios (L/d). The experimental work for this study is carried out in the laboratory using a large soil container in which the soft clay soil was constructed. A loading system to affect the loads on the micropile model and instrumentations to measure the displacement was used. The axial strain in some cases reflects the negative skin friction so that it is necessary to investigate that by knowing the distribution of axial strain. The experimental results showed that the presence of negative skin friction of micropiles is almost non-existent and not noticed when using small piles due to their small diameters. Also, the results indicated that the micropile load-displacement response under axial loading was nonlinear. The ultimate load carried by skin friction ranges from about 87% to 95 % from the total ultimate load depending on (L/d) and micropile diameter (d). The average ultimate unit skin friction is ranges from 0.5 to 1.1 times the undrained shear strength of the adjacent soil. These observations indicate that the skin friction dominates the load transfer mechanism for micropiles. The ultimate loads increase with increasing the embedment ratio (L/d). This is due to increasing the length of micropile, which leads to increasing in the ultimate load.
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Structural and Construction Engineering
Keywords
Axial load, Micropile, Clayey soil, skin friction
Link
https://icce2021.conferences.ekb.eg/article_1231.html
Publication Type
Conference
Publication Title
2nd International Conference on Civil Engineering: Recent Applications and Future Challenges
Publication Link
https://icce2021.conferences.ekb.eg/