Abstract
The design of CFA piles in the stiff/hard lodgement till that underlies most of Dublin is usually based on published experience from similar piles in other soils that lack the high density and stiffness of this till. The results of load tests on two instrumented test piles are presented, one 450 mm in diameter and 12·3 m long and the other 600 mm in diameter and 11 m long, which were loaded to 3·15 MN and 4·5 MN respectively. A 1 m long instrumented dummy pile was formed at the same time as the prototype and was tested in the laboratory to confirm the calibrations for use in interpreting the instrumentation. The instrumented piles showed that high average shaft resistances of 230 kPa and 270 kPa were mobilised, which were of similar magnitude to those recorded on an instrumented driven pile in this lodgement till that was reported previously. The pile load tests indicate an estimated Nc value of about 7 for the bearing capacity factor in ultimate end resistance, which is less than the value of 9 normally used and considerably less than a value of about 55 estimated from the tests on the driven pile. The results also indicate a change in the load–pile-head deflection curves with time, which could be related to disturbance of the ground caused by the construction process.
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