Combined Pile-Raft Foundations

Auteur

Oliver Reul is a professor at the University of Kassel, Germany and heads the Department of Geotechnical Engineering. As a consulting engineer and accredited proof engineer for geotechnical engineering he has been involved in the design and construction of numerous combined pile-raft foundations.

Mark Randolph is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at the University of Western Australia and a consultant with Fugro Australia Pty Ltd in Perth. He is widely published including two previous books: Piling Engineering and Offshore Geotechnical Engineering, also published by Taylor & Francis, and over 300 journal articles. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2021.

Texte du rabat

This book presents the fundamental features of the design and performance of combined pile-raft foundations, the capacities of which are assessed for the foundation as a whole, reducing total and differential settlements economically. It includes numerical studies, in-situ measurements, and detailed case studies.

Contenu

1. Introduction. 2. Bearing Behaviour of Piled Rafts. 3. Design, Construction and Monitoring of CPRF. 4. Case Histories. 5. Design Example. Appendix A. Notation. Appendix B. Summary of Case Histories on Piled Rafts.