Introduction to PILOT Database and Establishment of LRFD Resistance Factors for the Construction Control of Driven Steel H-Piles

Abstract

The recently established and publicly available database for Pile-Load Tests (PILOT) is an amalgamated, electronic source of rich information comprising both static and dynamic data for driven piles (http://srg.cce.iastate.edu/lrfd/database%20downloads.html). The database, which includes quality-assured historical data on pile-load tests dating back to 1966, is intended for use in the establishment of resistance factors for load and resistance factor design (LRFD) and a reliable construction-control method for driven pile foundations and their future developments. Although a considerable amount of geotechnical and pile-load test data is available in literature as well as in various state department of transportation files, PILOT is one of the first regional databases to be exclusively used in the development of resistance factors for LRFD and a reliable construction-control method for pile foundations. Currently providing an electronically organized assimilation of geotechnical and pile-load test data for...