Abstract
The present paper aims to investigate the effects of defective piles in horizontally loaded piled raft foundations. Close to real scale foundation models of defective and intact three-piled systems were submitted to horizontal load tests. The models used bored type piles drilled with 5 m in length and 0.25 m in diameter, connected to a concrete raft founded on a tropical soil profile at the University of Campinas research site. Based on the experimental data, a three-dimensional finite element analysis was initially calibrated and consequently used to study the effects of the defective element at the pile load distribution and the horizontal subgrade forces at the pile shaft. The results show that the presence of a defective pile increases the raft tilting, which affects both vertical and horizontal load distributions among the raft and the piles, and among trailing and leading piles.
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The data is from the doctoral thesis of the first author, which is available in: https://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/25226.
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The software license (Abaqus) was provided by the University of Brasilia.
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This research could not have been conducted without the financial support provided by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). The authors are also grateful for the helpful support from staff and students of the University of Campinas and University of Brasília GPFees group (https://rpcunha.wixsite.com/gpfees), at both experimental and numerical stages. The first author finally acknowledges the providential support given by the Brazilian sponsorship institution CNPq, for his doctoral scholarship.
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The piled raft foundation systems were built with the funds of the research project: Fapesp 2011/17959-3. That was the only source of funding used in this research.
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García, F.J.A., da Cunha, R.P., de Albuquerque, P.J.R. et al. Experimental and Numerical Behavior of Horizontally Loaded Piled Rafts with a Defective Pile. Geotech Geol Eng 41, 429–439 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-022-02288-2
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