Parametric Study of Lateral Loaded Blade Pile in Clay

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Li, Lin
Sui, Guowei
Zhou, Jialin
Oh, Erwin
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2022
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The study of the mechanical properties between the pile and soil is limited when an enlarged head is added at the bottom of the pile foundation, which acts as anchor stabilization. This study investigates the blade pile foundation used in a solar panel project, which is subjected to lateral wind load action. The parametrical study is performed through the numerical simulation of the blade pile that is embedded in clay soil. The study considers both the soil modulus and the strength parameter of cohesion and concludes that the blade pile foundation capacity has a positive correlation with both. Moreover, when adding blades to a normal circular hollow section (CHS) pile, if the clay cohesion is less than 35 MPa, the capacity improvement rate will be greater. It analyzes the simulated load versus the soil displacement by considering clay in the soil states of very soft, soft, firm, stiff, very stiff and hard. This study finds that the blade application increases the lateral capacity of the pile foundation. In addition, when the soil is very soft to firm, adding blades results in a higher percentage of capacity improvement, which is up to 14.8% for the standard 1.5-m CHS pile with an outside diameter of 76.1 mm.

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Geosciences

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12

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9

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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Geology

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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

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lateral load

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Li, L; Sui, G; Zhou, J; Oh, E, Parametric Study of Lateral Loaded Blade Pile in Clay, Geosciences, 2022, 12 (9), pp. 329

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