PROJECT: PILE DRIVE TEST RINGWAY EINDHOVEN
| Description: | Analysis pile driving vibrations and hinderance of adjacencies |
| Client: | Civil Engineering Division at the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management |
| Contact person: | ir. M.H.A. Brugman (M.Sc.) |
| Background information: | Article OTAR (Dutch) |
| Article Cobouw Vol. 159 2005-08-30 (Dutch) |
Between the motorway junctions Leenderheide and Ekkersrijt, the ringway Eindhoven will be reconstructed; both the main lanes with through traffic and the parallel lanes with deflecting traffic will be renovated. On behalf of the reconstruction, a number of existing structures have to be adapted or enlarged. These structures will be founded on piles and sheet piles. Due to the soil layers and the small distance to adjacencies, its installation results in vibration hinderance and, possibly, damage to these adjacencies.
In order to gain insight into the possible vibration damage and discomfort, which could appear during these reconstruction activities, and in order to be able to assess whether additional preventing measures are required, there has been decided to execute a ‘pile drive test’.
By order of the Civil Engineering Division at the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Bouwdienst Rijkswaterstaat) the following subjects have been executed:
- Draw up plan of activity for the pile test;
- Determination of the location for the pile driving test and identification of the monitoring (damageable) objects;
- Estimation of the predicted values for the stroke numbers and vibration levels;
- Set up of the measuring equipment;
- Supervising the tender procedure for contractors (for pile driving and vibration measurements);
- Supervision of the realization of the pile test;
- Interpretation of the measurements and draw up final report;
- Converting of the results of the pile test to the other locations of the structures for the ringway and assessment of the range of influence of the pile activities per structure;
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