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Elastic Settlement of Group Piles
In general, the settlement of a group pile
under a similar working load per pile
increases with the width of the group and
the center-to-center spacing of the piles
(d). Several investigations relating to the
settlement of group piles have been
reported in the literature, with widely
varying results.
The simplest relation for the settlement of group
piles was given by Vesic (1969), namely:
For group piles in sand and gravel, for elastic
settlement, Meyerhof (1976) suggested the
empirical relation:
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