Pile design and construction rules of thumb /
Ruwan Rajapakse, STV Construction, Department of Construction & Engineering, New York.
- Second edition.
- xxii, 355 p.
1. Site investigation and soil conditions -- 2. Geophysical methods -- 3. Groundwater -- 4. Foundation types -- 5. Pile types 6. Selection of piles -- 7. Static and dynamic analysis -- 8. Design of driven piles -- 9. Design of bored piles -- 10. Caisson design -- 11. Piles in rock -- 12. Underpinning -- 13. Pile settlement -- 14. Wave equation basics -- 15. Negative skin friction (downdrag) -- 16. Bitumen-coated pile design -- 17. Laterally loaded piles -- 18. Short course on seismology -- 19. Seismic analysis of piles -- 20. Batter pile design -- 21. Pile design software -- 22. Pile driving methods -- 23. Water jetting -- 24. Pile load testing -- 25. Pile construction verifi cation -- 26. Pile identifi cation plan -- 27. As built plans-- 28. Code issues (Eurocode and other building codes) -- 29. Economic considerations and costing