The role of physicochemical processes in aging of shaft friction of driven steel piles in sand
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Abstract
Several studies have reported substantial increases in the shaft capacity of driven steel piles in the months following installation. This study investigates factors influencing this time dependence of shaft capacity by conducting a series of field tests on piles and a parallel series of interface shear tests using a newly developed apparatus. The piles and interfaces used in the experiments employ mild steel, stainless steel, and galvanized steel, while the aging periods allowed in the laboratory and field were 1 and 3 years, respectively. Chemical analyses of the crusts that developed at the sand–steel interfaces are reported. It is shown that the aging characteristic of sand-steel friction depends on the relative contributions of interlocking and dilation but is controlled by dilation at the crust–sand interface adjacent to the shaft of a driven pile. There is no gain in shaft friction with time in dry sand or for piles with non-reactive steel. The operational friction angle for mild steel piles in moist or saturated sand is the soil–soil friction angle.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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