Great lateral forces arise commonly on retaining wall, piers and bulwark in harbours, bridge abutments and tower structure. Earth pressure dynamic forces(impact of ships), or wind pressure may be named as typical causes for these forces.
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Great lateral forces arise commonly on retaining wall, piers and bulwark in harbours, bridge abutments and tower structure. Earth pressure dynamic forces(impact of ships), or wind pressure may be named as typical causes for these forces.
This paper based on a series of model tests was performed to proposal the decision method of a allow lateral resistance of single pile under lateral load. Model tests were performed in changing of relative density. The model piles were made of copper tube, and the homogeneous model grounds were used air-dried fine sand enough to get through t.4 sieve. A summary test results were analyzed through the experiment as follows. The allow lateral resistance of the proposal method was larger than existing method as safety factor was applied two, that of the existing method was larger than proposal method as safety factor was applied three. But The allow lateral resistance was same to proposal method and existing method as safety factor was applied 2.5.