Pile driving

Modeling of vibratory pile driving

Vibratory installation of piles and casings can be extremely economical and therefore the contractors’ preferred method of pile driving. Compared to impact pile driving it also has the advantage of reduced noise pollution. Unfortunately, this installation method is still fraught with uncertainties. The foremost question is driveability and equally important is the question of bearing capacity o...

Analysis of Centrifuge Pile Tests; Simulation of Pile-driving

Observed increases in offshore pile driving resistance

This paper presents 53 well-documented cases of the short-term set-up of open-ended steel pipe piles driven at two fields in the North Sea. Increases in soil resistance during driving (set-up) were observed when pile driving was re-started after delays typically ranging between 24 h and 100 h. The soil encountered at the sites consisted of overconsolidated sands and clays, where the clays varie...

Automatic Controlled Vibratory Pile Driving with Shock-stress Limitation

For several decades vibratory pile driving has been extensively applied in civil engineering, e.g. in the construction of bulkheads. On urban construction sites shock waves occur which could damage nearby building structures and annoy humans. State-of-the-art machinery provides three control inputs (frequency, excitation force and surcharge force) to achieve two almost contradictory goals: fast...

Validation of dBSea, Underwater Noise Prediction Software. Pile Driving Focus

This report aims to characterise the prediction error of the different noise modelling algorithms used by the underwater noise prediction software “dBSea”. Two shallow water pile driving scenarios are presented, and the software’s prediction is matched against the measured real world data. The results of the comparison show that while you can get good results with a simple model based on spheri...