Behavior of Drilled Piers in Layered Soils on Texas Barrier Islands

by John A. Focht, III, McBride-Ratcliff & Associates, Inc, Houston, TX, USA,
Chester J. Drash, Jr., McBride-Ratcliff & Associates, Inc, Houston, TX, USA,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Drilled Piers and Caissons II

Abstract:

Twenty-eight full scale load tests and the results of 41 geotechnical studies were analyzed to correlate shear strength interpreted from field and laboratory test data with those derived from the load tests. The goal of this study was to obtain better correlations between measured and predicted pier capacities so that design procedures based solely on shear strength parameters would be improved.

Subject Headings: Laboratory tests | Shear strength | Soil strength | Load tests | Soil tests | Layered soils | Shear tests

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