Year 2024

• Bearing capacity of monotonically installed tapered piles in medium dense Fontainebleau sand

  Publication

  • L. Bałachowski
  • W. F. Kabeta
  • J. Konkol
  • L. Thorel
  • M. Blanc
  • T. Dubreucq

  - Year 2024

  A series of installation of tapered piles in medium-dense Fontainebleau sand were performed in the geotechnical centrifuge at Gustave Eiffel University. The models of piles with three different shapes - straight profile (S), and with taper angle of 0.70 degrees (T1), and 1.4 degrees (T2) were used. The piles were instrumented with fiber optic wires on the shaft and load cell at the base. After monotonic installation, the models were...

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• Centrifuge modelling of tapered wall jacked into dense sand

  Publication

  • L. Bałachowski
  • W. F. Kabeta
  • L. Thorel
  • M. Blanc
  • T. Dubreucq

  - Year 2024

  A series of static penetration tests of trapezoidal walls in dense Fontainebleau sand were performed in the geotechnical centrifuge at Gustave Eiffel University. The models of wall with three different shapes (straight profile with thickness D=16mm, 0.75 degree and 1.5 degree of taper angle) but with the same volume were used. The soil mass was instrumented with five stress cells located at two levels at 2D, 4D and 6D distance...

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