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A. Considerations during Fabrication

B. Installation Sequences for CHS Kingpost
C. Challenges Faced and Adopted Solutions
D. Concluding Remarks

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OUTLINE
A. Considerations during Fabrication
B. Installation Sequences for CHS Kingpost
C. Challenges Faced and Adopted Solutions
D. Concluding Remarks

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A. Considerations during Fabrication
1. Deliver in 1-piece? → need to check access to
construction site

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A. Considerations during Fabrication
1. Deliver in 1-piece? → need to check access to
construction site
2. Laitance Concrete → need cover plate at the toe

Conical
toe
cover
plate

A. Considerations during Fabrication 4

A. Considerations during Fabrication
1. Deliver in 1-piece? → need to check access to
construction site
Top
2. Laitance Concrete → need cover plate at the toe cover
3. Backfilling of the bored hole → need cover plate plate
at the top

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A. Considerations during Fabrication
1. Deliver in 1-piece? → need to check access to
construction site
2. Laitance Concrete → need cover plate at the toe
3. Backfilling of the bored hole → need cover plate
at the top
4. Requirement for lifting → lifting lugs
Lifting
Lug

A. Considerations during Fabrication 6

A. Considerations during Fabrication
1. Deliver in 1-piece? → need to check access to
construction site
2. Laitance Concrete → need cover plate at the toe
3. Backfilling of the bored hole → need cover plate
at the top
4. Requirement for lifting → lifting lugs
5. Maintaining verticality → need to use guide frame

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A. Considerations during Fabrication
1. Deliver in 1-piece? → need to check access to
construction site
2. Laitance Concrete → need cover plate at the toe
3. Backfilling of the bored hole → need cover plate
at the top
4. Requirement for lifting → lifting lugs
5. Maintaining verticality → need to use guide frame
6. Top of Kingpost is below working platform → need
to use dolly

A. Considerations during Fabrication 8

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A. Considerations during Fabrication
B. Installation Sequences for CHS Kingpost
C. Challenges Faced and Adopted Solutions
D. Concluding Remarks

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 Existing Ground

Temporary Casing
KP Top Level

Cast Concrete
for Bored Pile

Plan View
Sectional View
B. Installation Sequences for CHS Kingpost 10
 Existing Ground

Guide Frame Support

to be tag-welded to
top of casing

KP Top Level

Plan View
Sectional View
B. Installation Sequences for CHS Kingpost 11
 Existing Ground

KP Top Level

King Post

Plan View
Sectional View
B. Installation Sequences for CHS Kingpost 12
 King Post
Dolly

Existing Ground

KP Top Level

King Post

Plan View
Sectional View
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 Existing Ground
L shape bracket
tag-welded to KP
& Guide frame to
support the dolly KP Top Level

& kingpost before King Post

concrete hardens

Spacer to control ECC

Plan View
Sectional View
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A. Considerations during Fabrication
B. Installation Sequences for CHS Kingpost
C. Challenges Faced and Adopted Solutions
D. Concluding Remarks

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 King post
Verticality
allowable
1:200

C. Challenges Faced and Adopted Solutions

1. Verticality Incompatibility
• Bored pile allowable verticality 1:75
• Kingpost allowable verticality 1:200
• Need to check clearance prior to
installation

Bored pile
Verticality
allowable
1:75

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C. Challenges Faced and Adopted Solutions
2. KP Shear Studs Entangled with Rebar Cage Shear Links Guide
bars
• Provide guide bars connecting shear studs

Guide
bars

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C. Challenges Faced and Adopted Solutions
3. Buoyancy in Stabilizing Fluid
Hole
• Need to fill KP with water with
cap
• Provide holes at top cover plate

Top
cover
plate

C. Challenges Faced and Adopted Solutions 18

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A. Considerations during Fabrication
B. Installation Sequences for CHS Kingpost
C. Challenges Faced and Adopted Solutions
D. Concluding Remarks

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D. Concluding Remarks
1. Considerations during design stage to facilitate smooth installation:
• Clear space between KP shear studs and inner-most layer of rebar cage
• Distance of pile cut-off-level from working platform level
• Use load-transfer mechanism other than shear studs (end bearing plate?)

2. Use higher strength material → reduce OD of Kingpost

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