Screw Piles - Installation and Design in Stiff Clay

<p>This volume provides a snapshot of the current thinking and development perspectives on the installation and design of screw piles within the framework of Eurocode 7. </p><p></p><p>The material included provides background on the various aspects of screw piles, with particular reference to stiff clays:</p><p></p><p>1. Exptensive description of a multi-million Euros research program on the loading behaviour of screw piles;</p><p></p><p>2. Geological and geotechnical characterization of Boom clay, and overview of screw pile testing over the last 30 years;</p><p></p><p>3. Results of the various load tests recently performed on 30 piles: static, dynamic, statnamic, and integrity and outcome of an international prediction event; </p><p></p><p>4. Tentative translation of the current body of knowledge in terms of potential application rules to be soon ascenrtained at the national level, as required by Eurocode 7.</p><p></p><p>The remarkable aspects of the soil displacement piles covered in this book is an exceptionally low variability of geotechnical parameters,installation performance, and pile capacity calculations.</p>