Design and Construction of Driven Pile Foundations
Administration, Federal Highway / Bradshaw, Aaron S. / Baxter, Christopher D. P.
Pile foundations are used extensively for the support of buildings, bridges, and other structures to safely transfer structural loads to the ground and to avoid excess settlement or lateral movement. They are very effective in transferring structural loads through weak or compressible soil layers into the more competent soils and rocks below. A "driven pile foundation" is a specific type of pile foundation where structural elements are driven ...