Abstract
Dewatering in geotechnical excavations may cause soil consolidation and settlement, which would exert negative skin friction on nearby piles and cause additional pile settlements. Incorporating four steps that include a pumping model, a simplified consolidation evaluation, a pile–soil interaction model and a semi-theoretical pile settlement prediction, this paper presents a procedure to estimate the drawdown, the soil consolidation settlement, the negative friction on the pile shaft and the additional pile settlement, induced by dewatering in phreatic zones. Numerical calculations for a simplified situation of dewatering operation illustrate the proposed procedure in estimating the mechanical effects of dewatering on nearby piles.
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