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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,601 Views
19 Pages

Research on the Reinforcement Characteristics of Thick Cushion Layer and Rigid Pile Composite Foundation

  • Junhua Chen,
  • Yuzhi Nie,
  • Guan Lian,
  • Aijun Chen,
  • Siqi Pu,
  • Jinfeng Zou,
  • Jiasheng Zhang,
  • Xiong Shi,
  • Di Wu and
  • Bai Yang

The rigid pile composite foundation method is the most commonly used method for strengthening weak soil foundations. In this method, piles usually need to pass through weak soil layers, and the pile end falls on a bearing layer with good bearing capa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,231 Views
24 Pages

Ultra-soft soil is distributed in coastal areas around the world and has poor engineering properties. There is a significant difference in settlement between semi-rigid pile and surrounding soil under embankment load. Based on existing research resul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,364 Views
17 Pages

10 February 2023

Settlement of the pile ends in end-bearing rigid pile composite foundations is generally minimal, so only relying on the cushion to coordinate the pile soil deformation may result in insufficient deformation adjustment capacity. Using a deformation a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,092 Views
17 Pages

22 August 2023

The reliability of high-rise buildings’ rigid-pile composite foundations primarily relies on the load test results of single-pile composite foundations. Field load tests were conducted for a high-rise building in the loess area of China, the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
898 Views
32 Pages

4 September 2025

The pile–soil composite foundation system, highly acclaimed for its remarkable load-bearing capacity and limited deformation characteristics, has emerged as a fundamental element in geotechnical engineering practices. In the applications of adj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,332 Views
16 Pages

Concrete-cored sand–gravel piles are a kind of composite pile formed by wrapping a concrete-cored pile with a sand–gravel shell, which has the advantages of both a rigid pile and bulk-material pile. The bearing characteristics of the conc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
768 Views
23 Pages

27 April 2025

Permeable concrete piles, which combine the advantages of rigid piles and drainage consolidation techniques, have been widely applied in soil foundation treatment. In this study, the optimal mix proportion of the permeable concrete pile material was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,499 Views
26 Pages

The Vertical Behaviors of Dissimilar Pile Composite Foundations over Inclined Bedrock

  • Yingjie Zhou,
  • Lihua Tan,
  • Zhiliang Yue,
  • Lei Yan,
  • Kaiyu Jiang and
  • Xiaoying Gou

3 February 2024

Pile composite foundations (PCFs) have been commonly applied in reinforcement engineering to adjust the vertical stiffness of foundations, due to the displacement control design criteria for foundations. PCFs that have dissimilar pile lengths, locate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,265 Views
22 Pages

8 January 2022

Rigid-flexible composite pouch piles with expanded bottom (RFCPPEB) are generally considered as new symmetrical piles in practical engineering, but their bearing characteristics and design method are still not completely understood. The objective of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,780 Views
23 Pages

A Review of Efficient and Low-Carbon Pile Technologies for Extra-Thick Soft Strata

  • Chaozhe Zhang,
  • Jianyong Han,
  • Songyu Liu,
  • Zhenglong Cao,
  • Chen Jiang,
  • Xuhan Diao,
  • Guangwei Chen and
  • Li Tian

18 March 2023

With the development of urban underground space and increased infrastructure functions, both the scale of engineering construction and engineering difficulties have increased globally. In the construction of structures in soft strata, especially in c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,037 Views
15 Pages

23 January 2023

The theory of vertical pile vibration is the essential basis for pile integrity determination and dynamic analysis. The pile vibration characteristics are inevitably affected when the surrounding soil is frozen due to the low environmental temperatur...