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essai statique de chargement [1 record]

Record 1 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Concrete
CONT

Safe Load on Friction Piles. The load that can be carried by a single friction pile in a deposit of saturated clay can best be determined by means of a static load test. ... Since load tests on piles are relatively expensive, numerous efforts have been made to compute the safe load on friction piles on the basis of pile-driving records or laboratory tests.

Key term(s)
  • dead load test

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de béton
CONT

Contrôle des pieux. [...] Essai statique de chargement. Cet essai [...] est le plus déterminant, car il fixe à la fois la capacité de portance du pieu et les performances du sol, mais nécessite des moyens importants et est relativement coûteux [...]. Il est recommandé d'en exécuter au moins un dans le cas d'un ensemble de pieux.

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