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EngineeringCivil EngineeringSoil MechanicsStructural AnalysisStructural EngineeringLoad AnalysisPile FoundationsStrain AnalysisStrain MeasurementStress AnalysisStress-strain BehaviorPile Load CapacityPile Load TestingPile Load TransferPile Shaft ResistancePile Toe ResistanceShaft ResistanceStatic Load TestingToe Resistance
More and more, our profession is realizing that a conventional static loading test on a pile provides limited information. While the load-movement measured at the pile head does establish the capacity of the pile (per the user’s preferred definition), it gives no quantitative information on the load-transfer mechanism (magnitude of the
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