Abstract:
Recently, barrette pile is used to replace the conventional bored pile in order to increase the allowable vertical and horizontal pile capacity. In case of limited construction space, the barrette pile is more adjustable due to its rectangular shape. However, the basic construction equipments and construction time between barrette pile and bored pile are total different, therefore, the design parameters for barrette pile shall be adjusted and might be not same as bored pile. This research aims to compare pile load test results of instrumented barrette piles and instrumented bored piles in Bangkok with the same pile tip and soil conditions. The results show that the adhesion factor (alpha) and friction factor (beta) parameters for barrette piles are same as the bored piles. However, Nq-value for barrette pile is much lower than the bored pile, which is due to the effect of construction method at pile toe. In addition, the plane strain effect due to barrette dimension between long side and short side (L/B < 2) does not show any significant effect on the friction resistance. In case of barrette and bored piles having tips in second sand layer, the effect of grouted base increase both skin friction (beta-value) and bearing capacity (Nq-value) of pile in the sand layer. The study of soil-pile elastic modulus (ES) based on Poulos & Davis (1980)'s method, it was found that the Es values of barrette piles are higher than bored piles due to the effect of their large equivalent diameters. The comparison of the Es values between based grouted and non-grouted piles show that base grouting is not significant effect on the Ex values. In this study, all barrette and bored piles were instrumented with vibrating wire strain gauges (VWSG). High capacity load test was carried out on 4 instrumented barrette piles and 26 instrumented bored piles to obtain the unit skin friction (fS) and unit end bearing resistance (qE).