13. Composite Piles

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Figures, Tables IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. The Preliminaries
7. 1. A Quick Survey 5
8. 2. Choosing the Site 8
9. 3. Investigating the Chosen Site 10
10. 4. Core Borings 15
11. 5. The Demands of the Superstructure 28
12. 6. Breakdown of Design and Specification Cost Factors 33
13. Part II. Foundation Types
14. 7. The Elimination Table 39
15. 8. Spread Footings, Alone and in Combinations 52
16. 9. Wood Piles, Untreated and Treated 55
17. 10. Cast-In-Place Uncased Concrete Piles; MacArthur, Simplex, and Other Types 61
18. 11. Cast-In-Place Uncased Concrete Piles: Western Foundation Corporation Types 72
19. 12. Light-Shelled Cast-In-Place Concrete Piles 81
20. 13. Composite Piles 88
21. 14. Precast Concrete Piles 101
22. 15. Medium-Wall Steel Pipe Piles 108
23. 16. Structural Steel Piles 116
24. 17. Open-End Pipe Piles to Rock 118
25. 18. Caissons 123
26. 19. Drop-Shaft or Free-Air Method of Forming Caissons 129
27. 20. Drilled-In Caissons 131
28. 21. Grouping in General 133
29. 22. Selecting the Bid Group 138
30. Part Three. Laboratory and Field Testing
31. 23. Field Testing: Soil-Load Tests 145
32. 24. A Method of Pile-Load Testing 150
33. 25. What a Designing Engineer Should Know About Tools, Plant, and Dynamic Driving Formulas 159
34. 26. Methods of Installation Other Than Driving 163
35. 27. Specifications 170
36. 28. Foundation Design Based on Performance or Functional Criteria 175
37. 29. Load by Test: Purpose and Uses 180
38. 30. Choice of Working Load Per Pile 185
39. Part Four. Specifications and Contracts
40. 31. After the Bid Group 193
41. 32. Legal Requirements 195
42. 33. The General Clauses of a Specification 201
43. 34. Contract Forms Other than Specifications 209
44. 35. Writing a Group Specification 211
45. Part Five. Building Codes
46. 36. Using The New Building Codes to Reduce Cost 217
47. 37. Explanation and Discussion of Certain Descriptive Terms 223
48. Part Six. Basic Design
49. 38. A Five-Force Approach 231
50. 39. Dock Faces, Railway Trestles, Buildings, And Retaining Walls 234
51. 40. Bridge Piers 247
52. 41. Graphic Method Of Selection Of Foundation Types 261
53. 42. Basis Of Load-Carrying Capacity Of Foundations 278
54. Index 287