ASSIGNMENT II

12C604 –FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

SUBMITTED ON: 10/03/2017

1. A wood pile of 10 m length is driven by a 1500 kg drop hammer falling through 3 m to a final set
equal to 1.25 cm per blow. Calculate the safe load on the pile using the Engineering News Formula.

2. A precast concrete pile is driven with a 30 kN drop hammer with a free fall of 1.5 m. The average
penetration recorded in the last few blows is 5 mm per blow. Estimate the allowable load on the
pile using the Engineering News Formula.

3. What will be the penetration per blow of a pile which must be obtained in driving with a 3 t
steam hammer falling through 1 m allowable load is 25 tonnes ?

4. A 30 cm diameter pile penetrates a deposit of soft clay 9 m deep and rests on sand. Compute the
skin friction resistance. The clay has a unit cohesion of 0.6 kg/cm2. Assume an adhesion factor of
0.6 for the clay.

5. A square pile 25 cm size penetrates a soft clay with unit cohesion of 75 kN/m2 for a depth of 18 m
and rests on stiff soil. Determine the capacity of the pile by skin friction. Assume an adhesion
factor of 0.75.

6. A 30 cm square pile, 15 m long, is driven in a deposit of medium dense sand (φ = 36°, Nγ = 40 and
Nq = 42). The unit wt. of sand is 15 kN/m3. What is the allowable load with a factor of safety of 3?
Assume lateral earth pressure coefficient = 0.6.

7. A square pile group of 9 piles of 25 cm diameter is arranged with a pile spacing of 1 m. The length
of the piles is 9 m. Unit cohesion of the clay is 75 kN/m2. Neglecting bearing at the tip of the piles
determine the group capacity. Assume adhesion factor of 0.75.

8. Determine the group efficiency of a rectangular group of piles with 4 rows, 3 piles per row, the
uniform pile spacing being 3 times the pile diameter. If the individual pile capacity is 100 kN,
what is the group capacity according to this concept ?

9. A square pile group of 16 piles passes through a filled up soil of 3 m depth. The pile diameter is
25 cm and pile spacing is 75 cm. If the unit cohesion of the material is 18 kN/m2 and unit weight
is 15 kN/m3, compute the negative skin friction on the group.

10.Design a pile group to carry 3000kN in a soil of uniform clay to a depth of 6m underlain by hard rock.
The unconfined compressive strength(average) of the clay is 30kN/m2. Adopt a factor of safety of 3
against shear failure.

11.Design a double underreamed pile to carry 600kN at place where the soil is of uniform clay to a depth
of 40m. The shear strength of clay is 40 kN/m2 and unconfined compressive strength of clay beyond 4.5
m below ground level is 80 kN/m2. Adopt a factor of safety of 3 and adhesion factor between clay and
concrete is 0.78.