... Interior masonry partition walls in three different buildings were found to fail when subjected to significant unanticipated lateral loads due to air pressures. These walls were built around the 1970's and were empirically designed. Governing codes then, as now, commonly required...

... A new analytical solution for the resistance of a horizontal slice through a pile to lateral loading is presented. The solution assumes that a pile is surrounded by an infinite elastic medium, but it allows for the tendency of this medium to separate from the back of the pile. Procedures...

... Although the horizontal subgrade modulus plays a significant role in problems dealing with lateral-load carrying capacity of piles, a rather wide range of values is available in literature depending upon the equation, chart, or table used to obtain the modulus. This task is further complicated...

... nature; (3) ability to qualitatively and quantitatively predict behavior and stresses under static, fluctuating, and repetitive lateral loadings, or where larger emergency loads can be interspersed between normal loads. Ways are suggested for dealing with each of these factors. In addition, a method...

... Studies were made to investigate efficiencies of pile groups under lateral loading. The loading was in one direction at slow displacement rates approaching static conditions. The test piles were 25.4-mm (1-in.) diameter tubes open-ended, with penetrations of two, four, six, or eight diameters...

... loading. A design based on site-specific soil-pier parameters resulted in about a 40% reduction in pier length and significant cost savings when compared to the original design based on existing methods. drilled piers piles lateral loads p-y analysis load tests solar plant field tests...

... are used to verify the adequacy of the assumptions made for the analytic solution and to judge the appropriateness of the soil-pile interaction parameters. Dynamic lateral-load tests were conducted on eleven steel-pipe piles at three sites in southeastern Michigan. The piles were 324 and 356 mm (12.75...

... A lateral-load test was conducted on a 0.46-m-diameter concrete drilled shaft constructed July 1966 in stiff expensive-clay soil. This 10.5-m-long test shaft had been subject to considerable uplift thrust from swelling of adjacent soil. The lateral-load behavior was reasonably simulated...

.... Although there exists in the geotechnical engineering literature a variety of techniques for evaluating lateral-load capacity of piles, there are no published methods for analyzing helical anchor lateral stability when used as piling. The present study was undertaken to develop suitable mathematical models...

... A lateral-load test was conducted at an offshore site on two 1.22-m-diameter drilled shafts penetrating through 13.1 m of dense sand overlying clay. The lateral-load test was conducted by pulling the two shafts toward each other under a specified lateral load and then relaxing the load to zero...

... Lateral loading tests on timber piles in a variety of soil conditions are reported. Measured horizontal deflections and slopes of the piles are compared with predicted movements based on elastic theories and published values of horizontal subgrade reaction. It was found that the actual...

.... The amount of lateral soil movement was measured using inclinometers. Based upon the measured soil deformation, lateral soil pressures were determined with appropriate moduli of subgrade reaction. The soil pressures were used as lateral loading on a single pile. Using a finite element computer program...

... This paper presents the results of field lateral load tests made on four instrumented timber piles in Morgan City, La. The test piles were instrumented, calibrated, driven, and tested under lateral loads during February and March 1966 at two sites adjacent to the Morgan City floodwall. Each test...