Dynamic Pile Driving Analysis Using the Pile Driving Analyzer

摘要

Overall the authors learned that the PDA is a farily easy-to-use nondestructivetesting device that can reliably predict bearing capacities of piles as they are being driven and also on pile re-strikes, piles that are redriven after the soils are allowed to settle. This sophisticated piece of equipment and its associated software also can measure pile driving hammer efficiencies, detect damage to piles, and measure soil/pile interaction parameters.