Quality Control of Drilled Shafts (Drilled Shafts, Bored Piles, Augercast piles)

High Strain Testing of Drilled Shafts

• Basic requirements for high strain testing (ram weight, drop height and permanent set)
• Early applications and correlations
• Review of typical testing systems
• Data acquisition alternatives
• Recent examples
• Applications to micropiles and augercast piles

Shaft Bottom Evaluation

• Measure the thickness of the debris layer
• Evaluate strength of bearing layer with cone-like device

Pile Integrity Testing

• Basics of wave mechanics as it applies to integrity testing
• Preparing the top of the pile for the test
• Using the Profile program
• Testing in embedded structures

Cross Hole Sonic Logging

• Interpreting flaws and defects
• Editing incorrectly entered tube spacing and lengths
• Checking results of Tomography analyses against waterfall diagrams, and correctly using smooth, grid size and max wave speed
• Identifying debonding and knowing when flooding pile top can cure that problem
• Calibrating the encoder with full length scan of tube

Thermal Integrity Profiling

• Motivation for integrity testing
• Advantages and limitations of CSL, Gamma-Gamma and Thermal Profiling
• Principles of thermal measurements
• Interpretation of test data
• Test procedures
• Comparisons of Thermal and CSL/Gamma-Gamma results
• Examples / Case studies

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