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Project Number 57
Date of Summary September 30, 1984
Subject Static Lateral Load Tests on Instrumented Piles in Sand
Performing Activity Earth Technology Corporation
Principal Investigator Mr. Hudson Matlock
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Complete
Description This is a Joint Industry Project (JIP). A program of static and slow cyclic lateral load tests on piles in sand were conducted on two existing instrumented steel pipe piles installed in a uniform saturated silty sand at Seal Beach, California. Pile moments and head deflections will be obtained for different load conditions and pile head restraints. Emphasis will be placed on the acquisition of high quality data and on their subsequent analysis and interpretation. The primary objectives of the proposed large scale tests were to improve the technological insights into soil-pile interaction problems and to develop new or revised recommendations for design, including simplified formulations.
Progress Complete
Reports
AA (136 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cheang, L., Matlock, H., Static and Cyclic Lateral Load Tests on Instrumented Piles in Sand, The Earth Technology Corporation, Long Beach, California, October 1983.
 

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