... Abstract When assessing the driveability of a pile into the soil using a vibro hammer it is important that all factors that affect that process are recognized. For a particular project, the soil conditions are obviously fixed as they are determined by the project location, and the only true...

... driving behavior in stiff clay for future North Sea pile installations. Other aspects studied were: influence on driveability of gravity connectors and of internal driving shoes; pile plugging; friction set-up during driving interruptions; ultimate static bearing and pullout capacities; load/settlement...

... ABSTRACT Important increases in pile driveability and decreases in the energy required to drive to specified depths have been reported by two separate investigators when electroosmotic water flow was induced by the passage of direct current between a pile being driven and an adjacent electrode...