US 2016/0108598 A1 · PILE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION

Abstract

Methods and systems for optimizing pile design based on pile driver data are provided. A pile driving performance monitoring (PDPM) system captures pile driver data for a pile in an identified location using a pile driver data capture device. The pile driver data comprises a pile penetration depth and pile penetration rate based on percussive hammer. The identified location can be determined using a global positioning system. A parsing program component analyzes the pile driver data for the pile. The parsing program component determines whether the pile driver data of the pile meets an anticipated-pile driving criteria, the anticipated-pile driving criteria comprises a test pile driver data that correlates with a predefined capacity for a pile in the identified location. The pile is added to an acceptance report when it meets the anticipated-pile driving criteria or added to exception report when it does not meet the anticipated-pile driving criteria.

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A computer-implemented method for pile design optimization based on pile driver data, the method comprising:

identifying a location to drive a pile;
determining that the location to drive the pile corresponds to an anticipated-pile location, wherein the anticipated-pile location is associated with an anticipated-pile driving criteria;
capturing pile driver data for driving the pile at the location using a percussive hammer, wherein the pile driver data comprises a pile penetration depth and a pile penetration rate based on percussive hammering;
analyzing the pile driver data to determine whether the pile driver data of the pile meets the anticipated-pile driving criteria, wherein the anticipated-pile driving criteria comprises at least a test pile driver data that correlates with a predefined capacity for an anticipated-pile in the identified location;
and
generating a report for the pile, wherein the report is based on the analysis to determine whether the pile driver data meets the anticipated-pile driving criteria.

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A system for pile design optimization, the system comprising:

a percussive hammer of a pile driver configured for:
driving a pile using consistent energy of the percussive hammer that is based on a hammering frequency of the percussive hammer, the hammering frequency indicating the number of consistent blows of the percussive hammer for a defined period of time;
a pile driver data capture device operably attached to the pile driver,
wherein the pile driver comprises a sensor configured for:
detecting a position of the percussive hammer;
a parsing program component configured for:
receiving a plurality of test pile locations;
capturing test pile driver data for each of the plurality of test piles, wherein the test pile driver data comprises corresponding pile penetration depths and pile penetration rates;
and
generating an anticipated-pile driving criteria for an anticipated-pile in the plurality of test pile locations, wherein the anticipated-pile driving criteria comprises at least a test pile driver data that correlates with a vertical capacity and lateral capacity for a pile in the corresponding test pile location.

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