UPLIFT ON GRANULAR PILE ANCHORS

Scope of the Work

• To determine the Pullout capacity of Granular
Pile Anchors
• Construction
• Failure behavior
 Granular Pile Anchor
• New concept in the field of ground
engineering
• Three components Steel rod/ tendon

– Tendon Ground surface

– Base plate Borehole

– Compacted granular backfill

Granular backfill

Base plate
 Schematic diagram
G1 and G2 are
the dial gauges

P1, P2 are the

pulleys

W is the load
applied.
DETERMINATION OF INDEX PROPERTIES OF SOIL
AROUND THE PILE
• Sieve Analysis and hydrometer
• Specific gravity
• Liquid limit
• Plastic limit
• Standard compaction
• Direct Shear Test
• UCC
 Sieve analysis

100
90
80
70
60
% finer

50
40
30
20
10
0
0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10
sieve size in mm
 Liquid limit and plastic limit test
• Liquid limit 42%
• Plastic limit 19%
45

44

43
water content (%)

42

41

40

39

38
10
No. of blows
Classification of Soil
Description Percentage
Gravel 4

Sand 64

Silt 24

Clay 8

Liquid limit 42

Plastic limit 19

Plasticity index 23

Type of soil SC
 1.95

1.9
Standard Proctor Test
O.M.C 11%
1.85
Max. Dry unit weight:
1.93gm/cc

dry unit weight

1.8

1.75

1.7

1.65

1.6
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
water content
Normal stress Vs Shear
0.6
stress
0.5
Cohesion : 0.289kg/cm2
ϕ=20.55°

shear stress(kg/cm^2)
0.4

0.3 20.55°

0.2

0.1

0
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7
normal stress(kg/cm2)
 Pile Material
• Gravel : Sand=60:40
Making The Tank
(Initial stage)
 Installation of GPA

Compacting the pile material

Filling with the granular material (Dr=85%)
 Preliminary Uplift Test (with Perspex for l/d=5)
load in kg
0 20 40 60 80 100
0
0.2
0.4
displacement in mm

0.6
on top of pile
0.8 of pile anchor
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
Failure of the Perspex plate
 First Trial (for l/d==5)
load in kg
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
0

0.2

0.4
displacement in mm

0.6

0.8

1.2

1.4

1.6
 Second Trial (for l/d=3.33)
load in kg
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
0

4
displacement in mm

6
pile anchor
8 top of pile

10

12

14

16
Collection of sample for UCC
 Results of UCC Test
120

100

80
stress(kN/m2)

60 sample1
sample2
40 sample3

20

0
0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08
strain
 Third trial(for l/d=7)
load in kg
0 50 100 150 200 250
0

4
displacement in mm

10

12

14

16
 Failure Mechanisms

Friction mobilization

Column length L
Side friction
Wedge formation

Bulging
Bulging resistance
Bulging region

Original diameter
Do
Column diameter D
Diameter after bulging
Df

(a) Possible failure mechanisms (b) Bulging and frictional resistance

Failure mechanisms
 VARIATION OF PULLOUT CAPACITY WITH l/d RATIO

S.No Length of Diameter of l/d ratio Experimental Anchor Analytical

pile(mm) pile(mm) failure (kN) pullout
capacity (kN)
1 250 75 3.3 0.85 0.88

2 250 50 5. 1.02 1.10

3 350 50 7 1.98 2.02

 Future scope
• Concrete anchor piles
• Different Dr of granular material
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