Presented by: Bengt H. Fellenius, Dr.Tech, P.Eng., M.ASCE., M.CGS
First Day
08:00h Registration
08:30h The Static Loading Test: Performance and Determining Capacity
The static loading test and common methods for determining capacity.
09:00h Pile Instrumentation for Load Distribution
Pile instrumentation and factors influencing recorded data. Determining pile elastic modulus. The importance of residual load and how to include its effect in the analysis. The load distribution.
10:00h Coffee Break
10.20h The Bi-directional test — the O-cell Test
Principles of the bi-directional test (the O-cell test) and how to analyze the results. Examples of tests showing lessons learnt for load and resistance distributions, pile shaft and pile toe responses, residual load, and capacity extrapolations. Applying the results to a design.
12.00h LUNCH
13:00h Brief Background to Basic Principles Applicable to Piled Foundations
Soil classification, Effective stress, Stress distribution, Compressibility, Settlement, Shear strength, Bearing capacity; Site exploration methods (with emphasis on the CPT and CPTU), Assessing Liquefaction susceptibility from in-situ tests.
14.00h Coffee Break
14.20h Pile Dynamics — Aspects of Pile Driving, WEAP Analysis, and PDA Testing
Background to pile driving and basics of hammer function; Principles of the WEAP program; The Pile Driving Analyzer and Dynamic monitoring; Pile capacity using CMES and CAPWAP methods.
15.00h Pile Dynamics in Engineer
Examples from dynamic testing of piles: Hammer performance; Pile stresses, Pile integrity, Comparison and comments on capacity determined in a static loading test versus in a CAPWAP analysis. Use of pile dynamics in the design and construction of actual projects. Vibrations due to pile driving. The Statnamic test.
16:30h Questions and Discussions
17:00h End of First Day
(17:30h)
Second Day
08.30h Piles and Pile Groups — Long-Term Behavior and how we know what we know
Important case histories presenting studies that demonstrated the actual long-term response of piles to load and settlement of piles.
10:00h Coffee Break
10:20h Analysis of Load Transfer and Capacity of Piles
Bearing capacity and load-transfer by beta, alpha, and lambda methods; Set-up and relaxation; Capacity from CPT and CPTU and other in-situ methods.
12.00h LUNCH
13:00h Soil Improvement Using Wick Drains with Reference to Piled Foundations
Principles of radial consolidation and applications of wick drains to improve settlement conditions and lateral flow.
13.30h Precast Prestressed Concrete Piling
Ordinary precast and prestressed piles; cylinder piles; splicing of piles; pile shoes and rock shoes.
14.00h Coffee Break
14.20h Unified Design of Piles and Pile Groups
Design for capacity (choice of factor of safety, and rules of LRFD and Limit States Design); Design for structural strength (including drag load); Settlement of single piles and pile groups due to load directly on the piles and due to influence from adjacent activity (downdrag); Aspects of Canadian, US and European Codes and, guidelines and standards with examples and critique; Choice of factor of safety, and rules of LRFD and Limit States Design. Axial design for liquefaction. Design of piled rafts and piled pads (“inclusion piling”).
16.30h Contract Specifications and Avoiding Disputed Claims and Litigation
Views on the lighter side.
17.00h Questions and Discussions
17:30h End of Second Day and End of Course
Course Instructor
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Bengt H. Fellenius is a professional engineer specializing in foundation design and studies by participation in project teams, special investigations, instrumented field tests, etc. Dr. Fellenius graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden in 1962 and moved to North America in 1972. He was Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa from 1979 through 1996 and is an internationally recognized authority in the field of soil mechanics and foundation engineering, and, in particular, in pile foundations. He is the author of more than 250 technical journal and conference papers, articles, books, and book chapters. and has gained a wealth of practical experience during more than 40 years of work at home and abroad through a variety of assignments that encompass foundation design for water and sewage treatment plants, industrial plants, bridges, and highway projects, marine structures, and urban area development.
Dr. Fellenius is and has been an active participant in many national and international professional societies and research associations, and in Canadian and US Codes and Standards Development. For example, Member of the subcommittee for the American Society for Testing and Materials D4945 Standard for High-Strain Dynamic Testing of Piles; Chairman of the Canadian Geotechnical Society Technical Committee on Foundations writing the Canadian Foundation Engineering Manual Second Edition; Member of the Ministry of Transportation Committee for the Development of the 1983 and 1992 Ontario Bridge Design Code; Author of three Public Works Canada publications: Marine Division Master Specifications for Piling, Pile Design Guidelines, and Hammer Selection Guide; Past Overseas Correspondent Member to the Geotechnical Engineering Advisory Panel of the Institution of Civil Engineers, ICE (London); and Past Member of Editorial Board for the ASCE Geotechnical Engineering Journal. He has given lectures and courses to several universities, professional groups, and national and international conferences throughout Europe, America, and south-east Asia.
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