Uplift tests of jet mixing anchor pile

The jet mixing anchor pile is a new kind of supporting technology for foundation pit engineering in soft clay. The engineering features of jet mixing anchor pile as well as the difference between it and normal anchor bolt are introduced. The uplift tests of 4 jet mixing anchor piles are presented in detail to obtain the ultimate bearing capacity and load-deformation relationship of the piles. Load-transfer analysis, which is rarely applied in the analysis of uplift piles, is carried out on the piles with a hyperbolic calculation model. The load transfer method focuses on the interface between pile and soil, with which the non-linear behavior, the bearing capacity and the engineering features of the anchor piles can be fully studied. The calculated load displacement curves of the piles have close agreement with that of the pullout tests, indicating that the proposed analytical solution is reasonable and feasible in predicting the bearing capacity of the piles. Thus, with this study, the supporting stiffness of the anchor pile can be predicted in the design stage of the foundation pit engineering, which is very important and meaningful in practical engineering. The decay curve of shear stress of soil surrounding the pile is derived with the load-transfer method, through which the minimum transverse space of each two piles can be decided against the pile group effect. Engineers can optimize the length and spacing of group piles through this. (C) 2014 The Japanese Geotechnical Society. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.