Abstract:
Low Strain Pile Integrity Testing has been used in India since 1990’ s and several have tried to demonstrate the utility and benefits of this method. However, use of this technology was limited till 1998 as not enough data and work was actually done to justify its use and application on major infrastructure and real estate projects. The first author has done significant work in this segment resulting on its use on practically all sectors of the deep foundation industry. The paper collects several past Papers and also data of different projects from various testers to evaluate the effectiveness of the method. The current effort is to check whether the low strain test method is actually very simple and quick method or data collection and evaluation becomes complex with changes in soil stratum and pile profile. The paper highlights the present testing practices and includes a guideline for classification of pile integrity into few simple categories in Indian context rather than writing complex interpretations
Keywords: Low Strain Integrity Testing, PIT, pile foundation, deep foundation
Abstract: Theme 2