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EFFECT OF THICKNESS OF OVERLAYING CLAY LAYER OF LOWLAND REGION ON SENSITIVITY OF LATERAL DEFLECTION OF LONG PILES EMBEDDED IN NONHOMOGENEOUS SOIL - PART I: THEORETICAL FORMULATION D. H. Hafez; B. B. Budkowska
Lowland Technology International Vol 8 No 1, June (2006)
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The importance of sensitivity analysis of soil-structure interaction system is embodied in two facts, that is, the soil is a nature-made material that affects the system’s performance and the sensitivity theory constitutes an inherent part of the behavior of the system. Moreover, the access to the supporting system is limited. Therefore, it is essential to have a reliable basis for the assessment of how changes of the parameters of the system affect its performance. The paper presents the study of sensitivity of laterally loaded piles using the distributed parameter sensitivity method. Other available sensitivity methods are briefly described in the paper. The theoretical formulation of the sensitivity of the lateral head deflection of piles embedded in non-homogeneous soil to changes in the design parameters is derived. The non-homogeneous soil consists of soft clay overlying sand and the design parameters are those that define the pile and the adjacent clay and sand. The formulation resulted in obtaining sensitivity operators that can show along the pile length where and how the change of each parameter affects the change of lateral pile-head deflection. The formulation provides the basis for studying the effect of the thickness of the overlying clay on the sensitivity results.
EFFECT OF THICKNESS OF OVERLAYING CLAY LAYER OF LOWLAND REGION ON SENSITIVITY OF LATERAL DEFLECTION OF LONG PILES EMBEDDED IN NON-HOMOGENEOUS SOIL – PART IIA: NUMERICAL STUDY OF SAND PARAMETERS D. H. Hafez; B. B. Budkowska
Lowland Technology International Vol 8 No 2, Dec (2006)
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This part of the paper is a direct continuation of our first part paper. The first part of the paper presented the theoretical formulation of the sensitivity of the lateral head deflection of piles embedded in non-homogeneous soil consisting of clay overlying sand to changes in the design parameters. The current paper presents numerical sensitivity studies based on this theoretical formulation. The effect of variation in sand parameters on the variation of the lateral head deflection which is an important serviceability measure is studied. Both the clay and pile parameters will be investigated in part IIB of the paper. In lowland areas, the soil profiles starting from the soil surface contain soft clay layer of variable thickness. The effect of the thickness of the overlying clay layer on the sensitivity results is explored through comparative sensitivity assessment. Sensitivity results are given in the form of graphical presentations of sensitivity operators which show along the pile length where and how the change of each design parameter can affect the change of lateral pile-head deflection. It is shown that the thickness of the overlying clay has an effect on changing the magnitude and location of the maximum values of the sensitivity operators.
EFFECT OF THICKNESS OF OVERLAYING CLAY LAYER OF LOWLAND REGION ON SENSITIVITY OF LATERAL DEFLECTION OF LONG PILES EMBEDDED IN NONHOMOGENEOUS SOIL – PART IIB: NUMERICAL STUDY OF CLAY AND PILE PARAMETERS D. H. Hafez; B. B. Budkowska
Lowland Technology International Vol 8 No 2, Dec (2006)
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This part of the paper is a direct continuation of part I and part IIA of the paper. The first part of the paper presented the theoretical formulation of the sensitivity of the lateral head deflection of piles embedded in nonhomogeneous soil consisting of clay overlying sand to changes in the design parameters. Parts IIA and IIB cover the numerical sensitivity studies based on this theoretical formulation. Part IIA studied the effect of variation in sand parameters on the variation of the lateral pile-head deflection. This part (part IIB) presents the sensitivity of the lateral pile-head deflection to variations in the clay and pile parameters. The numerical sensitivity results are graphically plotted along the pile length. The effect of the thickness of the overlying clay layer on these sensitivity results is investigated. This effect of non-homogeneity of soil is of significant importance to areas in which the overlaying clay layer has variable thicknesses such as in lowland areas.
Co-Authors B. B. Budkowska