EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF PHC PIPE PILE CONSIDERING SOIL-PILE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION
LI Yuechen1,2,XING Keyong3,LIU Hao1,CHEN Mingxiang1
(1. School of Civil and Architectural Engineering,Wuhan University,Wuhan,Hubei 430072,China;2. School of Water Resource and Hydropower,Wuhan University,Wuhan,Hubei 430072,China;3. Hebei Electric Power Survey and Design Institute,
Shijiazhuang,Hebei 050331,China)
Abstract:A shaking table model test of the earthquake performance of PHC pipe pile under seismic excitations considering soil-pile-structure interaction effect is presented. Features of the shaking table test include a variety of pile models,i.e. single pile,three piles,and six piles,and a shear soil box consisting of clay,silt,and sand layers. The various developed soil-pile-structure systems are then subjected to three sets of seismic ground motions. Each set of the earthquake events is composed of five input excitation scenarios with varying intensities. The evaluation results show that along with earthquake continues,each model system natural frequency decreases and damping increases. The earthquake intensity has a significant effect on the soil-pile-structure system. Specifically,the soil-pile-structure interaction and soil nonlinearity effects are observed to go up as the intensity increases. The nonlinearity effects of systems with fewer piles are stronger than those with more piles. Moreover,the number and arrangement pattern of the piles as well as the configuration of the upper structure can exert substantial impact on the strain and bending moment responses. It is shown that compared to the single-pile model,the maximum tensile strains of the three-pile model and six-pile model drop by 23 percent and 66 percent respectively,whereas the maximum bending moments decrease by 29 percent and 70 percent respectively. On the other hand,the soil-pile interface pressure reduces by 22 percent and 32 percent respectively. It is also found that the damage behaviors for systems with more piles are less severe than those with fewer piles. The results of this preliminary investigation further indicate the feasibility of exploiting PHC piles in high seismicity regions. Nonetheless,it is also suggested that more research efforts are required for extensive application of PHC piles in such areas.
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