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Timothy W. Mays, Ph.D., P.E.
General overview for:
SUPER PILE 2015
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Introduction to Pile Cap Design
Pile Cap Design Guide - detailed overview of pile cap design, detailing, and
analysis methodologies that represent the current state of practice
2012 International Building Code (IBC) and ACI 318-11/14.
CRSI Design Handbook (2008)
16 inch and 18 inch HP sections with higher allowable loads have been
developed and this guide has an expanded scope that includes pile
allowable loads up to 400 tons (tagged high load piling in this guide) Deeper pile caps with larger edge distances
Finite element study was performed and recommendations for high load
piling details
Lateral loads on pile caps are considered for the first time in a CRSI
publication in this design guide
Tabulated designs are also provided for all CRSI considered pile cap
configurations and a wide range of vertical loading, lateral loading, and
overturning effects.
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Introduction to Pile Cap Design
Pile caps somewhat neglected in handbooks and textbooks
The complex and often misunderstood load path fundamentals warrants a
conservative design approach
Complete nonlinear finite element modeling of pile caps is not practical in
routine design
Strut and tie design models for all pile caps can be unconservative when
certain modes of failure control the pile caps response On the contrary, research performed during the development of this guide
suggests that deeper pile caps associated with larger and stronger piling
than was considered in the CRSI Design Handbook (2008) warrant some
new steel reinforcing details.
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Introduction to Pile Cap Design - Loads
The guide considers pile caps that are loaded by columns supported
directly at the centroid of the pile cap
All loads must be applied to the pile cap at the column-to-pile cap interface
Any combination of gravity loads (i.e., dead, live, or live roof) or
environmental loads (i.e., seismic, wind, rain, or snow)
Tabulated designs and example problems presented in this guide consider
only the effects of dead loads, live loads, wind loads, and seismic loads. In cases where the designer desires to include the effects of other loads,
these additional loads can conservatively be considered as live loads
without changing the methodologies presented herein
ASD is commonly used by geotechnical engineers and LRFD is usedalmost exclusively by engineers designing reinforced concrete pile caps.
Both nominal and factored loads are presented throughout this design
guide.
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Introduction to Pile Cap Design - Behavior
Load Case I was the only case considered in the previous CRSI Design
Handbook (2008).
Piles have a stiffness that is related to (a) the soil t-z or vertical spring
stiffness and (b) the axial stiffness of the pile as defined by the AE/Lpile,where A is the pile cross-sectional area, E is the pile modulus of elasticity,
and Lpile is the overall pile length.
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Introduction to Pile Cap Design - Behavior
For the largest pile cap configuration considered in this design guide (i.e.,
30 piles), an assumed pile cap thickness of 59 inches, and reasonable pile
stiffness assumptions (i.e., 40 ft long 10 in square prestressed piles bearing
on rock):
Vertical Pile Stiffness (k/in.) Pcenter(2 piles) Pcorner(4 piles) Pother(24 piles)
100 1/30 1/30 1/30
400 1/28 1/32 1/30.5 - 1/29.5
800 1/27 1/33 1/31 - 1/29
1,200 1/25 1/34 1/32 - 1/28
Rigid 1/7 1/82 (Tension) 1/80 - 1/10
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Introduction to Pile Cap Design - Behavior
Load Case II
Axial load, shear, and moment as applied by the supported column (note
that in the figure, all loads contain the subscript u and are factored)
Rigid caps and the top of the piles are modeled as pin connected such that
only axial load and shear are transferred from the pile cap to the top of the
pile.
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Introduction to Pile Cap Design - Detailing
Note that research performed on HP shapes used as piles has consistently
shown (see for Example AISI, 1982) that so long as some minimum
embedment into the pile cap is achieved, the concrete contained in the
overall boundary of the HP shape (i.e., d times bf) adheres to the pile andaids in pile bearing distribution just above the pile.
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Introduction to Pile Cap Design - Detailing
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Patterns:
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Introduction to Pile Cap Design - Detailing
Required Reinforcement:
All tabulated designs are based on the use of Grade 60 reinforcing bars.
Areas of required flexural reinforcement can be based on an average
effective depth, d = Dcap dc, where Dcap = total pile cap depth, and dc isassumed to be 10 inches for structural steel piles, or 8 inches for concrete
and timber piles. The requirements for minimum areas of flexural
reinforcement (ACI 10.5 and 7.12) are satisfied as follows:
(1) if As
bd, use As(2) if As < bd 4/3As , use bd
(3) if 0.0018bDcap 4/3As < bd, use 4/3As(4) if 4/3As < 0.0018bDcap bd, use 0.0018bDcapIn the expressions above, is the maximum of (a) 200/fy = 0.00333 and (b) 3
For 2-pile pile caps only, 0.0018bDcap should be provided as minimum steelfor the short bars.
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Introduction to Pile Cap Design - Detailing
Special Details for High Load Piling:
When piles with an allowable load greater than 200 tons (i.e., high load
piles) are used in conjunction with the design procedures presented in this
guide, two additional details are required. Note that the No. 4 hoops at 4inches on center should be placed around all piles in the pile cap. The
continuous No. 6 edge bar should be provided around the entire boundary
of the pile cap, 3 in. from both the pile cap bottom and pile cap edge.
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Pile Cap Design for Vertical Forces - Shear
26 pile cap patterns
In order to determine the demand associated with all 6 limit states identified
in the figure (i.e., 1 through 6) the number of piles applying shear to the
critical section must first be determined.
Piles are considered shear inducing members if their centerline (including
an adverse 3 in. tolerance effect) is located on the opposite side of the pile
cap critical section relative to the column.
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Pile Cap Design for Vertical Forces - Tabulated
Tabulated pile cap designs for the 26 pile cap patterns using allowable pile
loads ranging from 40 tons to 400 tons in varying increments are included
Two separate spreadsheets are also available to the design engineer.
The first spreadsheet was used to generate the tabulated pile cap designs,
but can also be used to design other pile caps with allowable pile loads that
vary from the increments presented in the tables or when pile shapes or
types vary.
The first spreadsheet also helps the designer customize the solution when
a preferred reinforcing arrangement is desired.
The second spreadsheet allows the designer significant freedom to vary
from many of the requirements, recommendations, and assumptions
presented in the guide.
For example, the designer may need to minimize pile cap edge distances
when pile caps are adjacent to a property line or use less than the
recommend pile spacing in some cases.
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Pile Cap Design for Vertical Forces - Examples
Example 1: 16 Pile Cap This example is a symmetrical cap (i.e., square in
plan) with multiple rows of piles on all 4 sides of the column. The larger pile
cap plan dimensions result in straight bars and it is one of the easiest pile
configurations to work with calculation wise. Low pile service loads are usedin the example.
Example 2: 5 Pile Cap This example is also a symmetrical cap (i.e., square
in plan) but it has only 1 row of piles on each side of the column. The smaller
pile cap plan dimensions result in hooked bars and it has a unique pile layout.
It is the only cap that utilizes 45 degree angles in the pile plan geometry.
Moderate pile service loads are used in the example.
Example 3: 6 Pile Cap This example is an unsymmetrical cap (i.e.,
rectangular in plan). It was also chosen since it is also one of the special
caps where Limit State 4 calculations require an average width w inorthogonal directions.
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Pile Cap Design for Vertical Forces - Examples
Example 4: 7 Pile Cap This example is an unsymmetrical cap. It was
chosen since it is one of only two caps that are uniquely detailed for round
columns (rather than equivalent square columns).
Example 5: 5 Pile Cap This example was selected as a comparison designwith Example 2 and it utilizes high load piles.
Example 6: 16 Pile Cap This example was selected as a comparison design
with Example 1 but it is designed for combined gravity and lateral loading.
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Pile Cap Design for Lateral Forces
Design, and detail pile caps to resist the combined effects of concentrated
moments (Mx and My), shears (Vx and Vy), and axial load (P tension or
compression)
Applied at the centroid of the pile cap and by the supported column.
The procedure assumes a rigid pile cap (relative to the axial stiffness of the
piles) and pinned connections between the top of the pile and the pile cap
Once the pile actions are known, the actual pile cap design procedure
presented in Chapter 5 for column axial loading is still applicable with only
minor modifications necessary.
Practical tabulated gravity plus lateral load designs are presented that allow
the designer to quickly determine the adequacy of the tabulated gravity only
pile cap designs to resist combinations with column applied shear andbending moment in cases (or load combinations) where the full factored
axial load is not applied.
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Pile Cap Design for Lateral Forces
Principle of superposition
The piles resist overturning via increased and decreased axial forces
depending on their position relative to the pile cap centroid.
The shear demand in each pile may be assumed equal in many cases, but
the designer should consider other assumptions when pile axial forces
result in net tension, particularly when seismic demands are considered.
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Eight Pile Cap
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Pile Cap Design for Lateral Forces
Table 6.1. Pile cap moments of inertia Ix and Iy for pile cap configurations 2 through30 assuming all piles have an equivalent cross sectional area of A = 1.0 ft2.
Number of Piles - Configuration Ix (ft4) Iy(ft4
2 NA 0.523 0.52 0.524 2 25 22 226 1.52 427 32 328 4.52 4.529 62 6210 4.52 9211 62 12212 82 15213 72 21214 13.22 14215 162 182
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Table 6.2. Maximum pile forces in edge piles for pile cap configurations 2 through 30assuming all piles have an equivalent cross sectional area (note A = 1.0 ft2not requiredsince the areas cancel out when solving for the actual pile force).
Number of Piles - Configuration Maximum Force (k) in Edge PileCaused Moment Mx(k-ft)Maximum Force (k) in Edge PileCaused Moment My(k-ft)
2 NA 3 1.15
0.58 4
0.5
0.5
5 0.35 0.35 6 0.33
0.25 7 0.29
0.33
8 0.19 0.22 9 0.17
0.17 10 0.19
0.17
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Pile Cap Design Other Topics
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