Every now and then something comes up that you really didn’t expect. That took place with a paper published this year cited “W.J. Lu, B. Li, J.F. Hou, X.W. Xu, H.F. Zou, L.M. Zhang, “Drivability of large diameter steel cylinders during hammer-group vibratory installation for the hong kong–zhuhai–macao bridge,” Engineering (2022), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2021.07.028.” (You can […]
About that “Warrington Method” For Vibratory Pile Drivability — vulcanhammer.info
The development of sheet piling and the Warrington-Vulcan hammers was about the same time (along with concrete piles, other types of steel piles, and the Engineering News Formula.) The years leading up to World War I were ones of rapid development in the marine construction and deep foundation industries, and Vulcan was in the middle […]
Vulcan and Sheet Piling — vulcanhammer.info
The latest in our series of monographs on vibratory pile drivers, this one takes us back to the beginnings of vibratory pile driving in the Soviet Union. It was prepared for the ReSEARCH Dialogues at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in April 2021. The vibratory driver that started it all: the Soviet BT-5, used […]
Reconstructing a Soviet-Era Plastic Model to Predict Vibratory Pile Driving Performance — vulcanhammer.info
Our newest research item is this one, which is an expansion of the work with steel piles earlier this year. Abstract is as follows:
The application of semi-infinite pile theory to the behaviour of driven piles has been studied since Parola (1970). Most of the effort, however, has been concentrated on piles which do not require a cushion between the pile head and the pile driving accessory, such as steel piles. Concrete piles, on the other hand, are generally driven with this additional cushion. In this paper the same type of semi-infinite type of analysis is applied to this problem. Both the case of a rigid pile head and a pile head which responds without reflection from the pile are studied using both closed-form and numerical solutions. Two case histories are included which illustrate the application of the method, along with parametric studies of both pile head conditions.
You can download the paper here, or go to Researchgate to do so.
This is a new paper to update and expand on part of the first technical paper presented by a Vulcan employee: the paper “A Proposal for a Simplified Model for the Determination of Dynamic Loads and Stresses During Pile Driving,” originally presented at the 1987 Offshore Technology Conference. The abstract is here: Warrington (1987) was […]
via OTC 5395 Revisited: Analysis of Cushioned Pile Hammers — vulcanhammer.info
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