Performance of Plied-Raft Systems

by Omar El-Kadi

Piles are one of the widely spread used systems to transfer high levels of stress to deeper soil strata when the subsurface strata cannot bear the needed stress level. Piles are commonly connected using a raft to maintain group action and to ensure overcoming any expected differential settlement. Although the raft is in direct contact with the sub-surface strata, conventional design systems ignore the load transferred from the raft to the soil due...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6202528834
• ISBN13: 9786202528832
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"