Abstract
The rehabilitation of the Zanzibar Port involved, among other things, driving piles into the submarine soils. Pile driving fractures the coral and as a result creates a gap filled with loose fractured coral between the unfractured coral and the pile. Grouting of the external surface of the pile is done to strengthen the fractured coral. In this paper, two grouted working piles (TP6 & TP61), randomly chosen from the pile group, were load tested to twice the design load. The test results indicate adequacy of the bearing capacity of the grouted piles.
Recommended Citation
Dubi, A. (1990). A study of Load bearing capacity of piles driven in the Zanzibar harbour submarine Soils. Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET), 14(1), 58-72. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.52339/tjet.v14i1.108
Publisher Name
University of Dar es Salaam