EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MODEL PILE FOUNDATIONS IN SEASONALLY FREEZING SOIL GROUND

Abstract

The bearing capacity and settlement of pile foundation were greatly influenced by the temperature variations of soil ground around pile foundation. This paper presented a short report about laboratory static load tests by model precast concrete piles (cross-section 4 × 4 cm and length of 60 cm) in seasonally freezing soil ground. The depth of frozen soil was 10 cm, temperature -5℃, -10℃, +20℃. There were many factors influencing on pile foundations, such as ice in the ground, low temperatures and moisture of the soil. A series of tests of model piles in seasonally freezing soil ground were carried out, the results of bearing capacity of pile foundations and a settlement were compared. The results of the experiments were shown in charts. By application of numerical modeling the pile and soil base interaction vertical deformation in thermal changes of soil ground, the different settlement of piles. Modeling of thermal conditions of soils in software in accordance with real conditions on the construction site of Kazakhstan, analysis,and comparison of the obtained results ofthe settlement of pile foundations at low temperatures are presented in the paper.