Comparative study on compressive and uplift load tests of PHC pipe pile

Abstract

There are 5∼8 m thick non self weight collapsible loess in the project site of a power plant. In order to study the bearing relationship between compressive and uplift piles in loess site, static load tests were carried out on PHC pipe piles with diameter of 400 mm and 500 mm and pile length of 12 m. Under the same pile top load, the displacement of uplift pile top is greater than that of compression pile top. Based on the measured load displacement curve, the uplift bearing capacity of PHC pipe pile with pile diameter of 500 mm is 32.5% higher than that of pile diameter of 400 mm. When the pile diameter is 400 mm and 500 mm respectively, the ultimate bearing capacity of PHC uplift pile is 26.24% and 27.70% of compression pile respectively. GM (1,1) model of grey system can fit and predict the load displacement curve of PHC pipe pile under compression and pull-out. Compared with the measured results,the relative error of GM (1,1) model of grey system is larger in the previous stages of load, and decreases gradually with the increase of load.