Abstract:
This study is to speculate the adhesion factor of bored pile
dry process in Bangkok Clay. The size of the bored pile employed in
this study is of 35 50 and 60 centimetres in diameter respectively.
The study is accomplished by collecting pile load test and soil
investigation data at the same area. The ultimate bearing capacity of
pile and undrained shear strength of soil are arranged in equation
in order to solve the adhesion factor by regression analysis method.
First,The total of 56 data set have been collected: 15 data set for
bored pile at failure load and 41 data set for bored pile not reaching
failure load. The latter will be predicted ultimate load by Chin's
method and De Beer's method. The predicted ultimate load and soil
shear strength are formulated into equations. Then the said equation
will be solved by regression analysis method to figure out the adhesion
factor. The result of this study shows that the adhesion factor obtained
from ultimate load predicted by Chin's method and adhesion factor
obtained from the failure load are higher than that obtained from
ultimate load predicted by De Beer's. The value of adhesion factor
obtained from ultimate load predicted by Chin's method is the highest
The ultimate load predicted by Chin 's method is related to
failure load of pile as shown by the following equation.
Chin Load = 19.59254 + 1.299848 * Fail Load
which R2 = 97.61946 % SE = 6.1925782 tons
The value of failure of pile is 77 X of Chin's load.
The ultimate load predicted by Chin approaches to the faiure load
when the settlement of pile is over 6 millimetres.
The adhesion factor gained by the corrected Chin's load
from the above equation when combined with the adhesion factor from
failure load are taken for graph plotting related to undrained shear
strength of soil. The curve between adhesion factor and undrained
shear strength is illustrated by the following equation.
? = 10(-0.0217353 + (-7.B&2567.-02)Su) + 0.26065
which R2 = 86.13249 % SE = 0.18999
The result of this study will be compared with that of Holmberg
and of Ng Kim Cheng. It is found that the value of adhesioan factor
from this study is higher than Holmberg's invery soft to stiff clay,
while about 25 - 30 percent lower in very stiff to hard clay, and about
15 percent lower than Ng Kim Cheng's. When the adhesion factor from
this study is to be reverse calculated to find out the ultimate load
of bored piles, which are previously known ,it turns out that the value
of ultimate load obtained is very close to the actual result.