Field study of construction effects in jacked and driven steel H-piles

The nuisance of noise and vibration caused by percussive piling of displacement piles has limited the use of driven piles in Hong Kong. As an alternative, pile jacking is quiet and free of strong vibration in use. Recently, pile jacking was introduced to the construction industry in Hong Kong (Chan et al., 2002; Li et al., 2003). Li et al. (2003) and Zhang et al. (2006) described termination criteria for jacked pile construction, and Yang et al. (2006) and Zhang et al. (2006) reported behaviour of several jacked piles.

Jacked piles...