- Title
- Updating reliability of single piles and pile groups by load tests
- Creator
- Huang, Jinsong; Kelly, Richard; Li, Dianqing; Zhou, Chuangbing; Sloan, Scott
- Relation
- Computers and Geotechnics Vol. 73, p. 221-230
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2015.12.003
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Pile load tests are used to refine designs and for quality assurance. They can also be used to verify the reliability of piles and pile groups. Stochastic methods have previously been developed to verify the reliability of single piles. A general stochastic method to verify the reliability of pile groups is developed in this paper. The method can be used to assess the reliability of groups where pile tests have been conducted to the ultimate capacity, to below the ultimate capacity but exceeding specified capacity, and where pile tests fail to achieve the specified capacity. In the latter case, the method allows decisions to be made as to whether the reliability of the entire pile group is satisfactory or whether additional piles need to be installed.
- Subject
- system reliability; pile group; load test; Bayesian updating
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1347306
- Identifier
- uon:30016
- Identifier
- ISSN:0266-352X
- Language
- eng
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