16. Cyclic lateral loading of an instrumented pile in overconsolidated clay at Tilbrook Grange

Introduction

Site conditions

Test pile

Test set-up

Instrumentation and data acquisition

Lateral cyclic test procedure

Test results

Observations during the test

Bend test

Development of p-ycurves from test data

Published methods for determining of p-ycurves in cohesive soil

Comparison of measured and predicted displacement and bending moments

Selection of p-ycurve

Results of analyses

Conclusions

Acknowledgements