Overview This online routine is to introduce the student (be that student graduate, undergraduate or continuing education) to the analysis of driven piles. Further documentation of the features of the program are forthcoming on our website vulcanhammer.net. The documentation for the program is as follows: TAMWAVE: Pile Toe Resistance, and Some More on Pile Shaft Resistance TAMWAVE 1: Entering Basic Soil and Pile Properties TAMWAVE 2: Modifying the Soil Properties TAMWAVE 3: Basic Results of Pile Capacity Analysis TAMWAVE 4: Shaft Resistance Profile, ALP and CLM2 TAMWAVE 5: Wave Equation Analysis, Overview and Initial Entry TAMWAVE 6: Results of Wave Equation Analysis TAMWAVE 7: Analysis for a Cohesive Soil A basic outline of the program is as follows: Enter the basic pile and soil parameters of the system to be analysed. As was the case with the previous effort, only one soil type and consistency is permitted, although the water table can be varied anywhere along the pile shaft. The values the program suggests can be then modified, although we urge the user to be careful in doing so. The user can also enter lateral loads if desired. The program then constructs a profile of the shaft and toe resistance of the pile, with both static and dynamic properties. The program then does a t-z type analysis of pile for axial load-deflection characteristics, using the ALP program. If lateral loads are entered, the deflection and moment from these is analysed using the CLM2 Method (see below.) Finally the program performs a wave equation analysis using a modification of the TTI program with the pile and soil properties previously computed. This program replaces the original routine which was originally written in 2005 and updated in 2010. The documentation for that effort is here.

TAMWAVE Driven Pile Analysis, 2018-07-18T06:12:20-04:00