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Pile Bearing Check

The document outlines the allowable bearing capacity of a pier/pile with a diameter of 30 inches and a depth of 30 feet, classifying it as a 'Drilled Pier'. It provides calculations for skin friction and end bearing pressures at various depths, resulting in total allowable bearing and tensile capacities for sandy clay at depths of 12 feet and 26 feet. Recommendations are made to increase pier surface area or modify pier design if structural loads exceed foundation capacities.

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Pile Bearing Check

The document outlines the allowable bearing capacity of a pier/pile with a diameter of 30 inches and a depth of 30 feet, classifying it as a 'Drilled Pier'. It provides calculations for skin friction and end bearing pressures at various depths, resulting in total allowable bearing and tensile capacities for sandy clay at depths of 12 feet and 26 feet. Recommendations are made to increase pier surface area or modify pier design if structural loads exceed foundation capacities.

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Allowable Bearing Capacity of Pier/Pile

Dp := 30in Diameter of Pier/ Pile

Foundation classification as per Bowles 5th edition Figure 19-1, ACI (Schousboe 1973)
P := "Drilled Pier" if Dp  30in = "Drilled Pier"
"Bored Pile" otherwise

Lt := 30ft Bottom depth of pier from grade

Lp := ( Lt - 5ft) = 25 ft Total Length of Pier with skin friction resistance as upper
5ft is neglected from the analysis
2
Dp  π 2
Ap := = 4.90874 ft Cross Section Area of Pier
4

2
Sp := πDp Lp = 196.34954 ft Total Surface Area of Pier
2
Sp1 := π Dp 7ft = 54.97787 ft Total Surface Area of Pier at Stratum II depth of 12ft
2
Sp2 := π Dp 8ft = 62.83185 ft Total Surface Area of Pier at Stratum III depth of 26ft
2
Sp3 := π Dp Lp = 196.34954 ft Total Surface Area of Pier at Stratum II depth of 26ft

SF := 3 Factor of Safety

As per Geotechnical Report the bearing capacity and skin friction values includes a
factor safety of 3.

If structure load reaction is greater than foundation bearing capacity, use the following:
Increase pier surface area to increase friction resistance capacity.
Provide Pier footing or Bell Pier have a bigger pier bottom section area to increase end bearing capacity
qfc1 := 400psf Allowable Skin Friction Compressive Load at 4ft to 12ft

qft 1 := 300psf Allowable Skin Friction Tensile Load at 4ft to 12ft

qfc2 := 800psf Allowable Skin Friction Compressive Load at 12ft to 30ft

qft 2 := 600psf Allowable Skin Friction Tensile Load at 12ft to 30ft

qb1 := 4500psf Allowable End Bearing Pressure at 4ft to 12ft

qb2 := 7000psf Allowable End Bearing Pressure at 12ft to 30ft

Total allowable Bearing Capacity for pier embed up to 12ft Sandy Clay
QTac := qfc1 Sp1 + qfc2 Sp2 + qb2 Ap = 106.6178 kip

Total allowable Tensile Capacity for pier embed up to 12ft Sandy Clay
QTat := qft 1 Sp1 + qft 2 Sp2 + qb2 Ap = 88.55364 kip

Total allowable Bearing Capacity for pier embed up to 26ft Sandy Clay
QTac2 := qfc1 Sp3 + qb1 Ap = 100.62914 kip

Total allowable Tensile Capacity for pier embed up to 26ft Sandy Clay
QTat2 := qft 1 Sp3 + qb1 Ap = 80.99419 kip

Since there are three soil layers at varying depths with different capacity, using the smaller friction and end
bearing capacity is ideal to consider the unknown soil condition at specific a location.

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