An alternative mechanism of pile failure in liquefiable deposits during earthquakes

Geotechnique - Tập 54 Số 3 - Trang 203-213 - 2004
Subhamoy Bhattacharya1, Spg Madabhushi2, M. D. Bolton2
1Fugro Limited (UK)previously Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
2Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Tóm tắt

This paper proposes an alternative mechanism of pile failure in liquefiable deposits during earthquakes. This failure mechanism, based on pile buckling, is formulated by back-analysing 14 case histories of pile foundation performance during earthquakes and verified using dynamic centrifuge tests. A new parameter, the slenderness ratio of a pile, is introduced to classify pile performance in liquefiable soils. This parameter fits very well both the reported case histories and the centrifuge test results.

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