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1. Caissons.

2. The slurry wall method.

3. Bearing piles.

4. Reinforced concrete foundation walls.

5. Some specific features of foundations.

6. Floating foundations.

15.9 Прочитай, переведи текст deep foundations и заполни пропуски:

1. Boring is then undertaken using a digging bucket to drill through the underlying soils to design depth.

2. Upon reaching the design depth, a reinforcing cage is introduced.

3. There are many reasons a geotechnical engineer would recommend a deep foundation over a shallow foundation, but some of the common reasons are very large design loads, a poor soil at shallow depth, or site constraints (like property lines).

4. The depth within the rock layer is considered to be equal to the diameter of the pile in hard rock layers and is taken to be equal to 2.5 times the diameter of the pile in soft rock layers.

5. Deep foundations can be installed by cither driving them into the ground or drilling a shaft and filling it with concrete, mass or reinforced.

6. Wooden piles are made from trunks of tall trees. Concrete piles are available in square, octagonal, and round cross-sections.

7. Construction methods depend on the geology of the site, in particular, whether boring is to be undertaken in dxy ground conditions or through water-logged but stable strata, i.e. wet boring.

A deep foundation is a type of foundation distinguished from shallow foundations by the depth they are embedded into the ground. _ .There are different terms used to describe different types of deep foundations including piles, drilled shafts, caissons and piers. The naming conventions may vary between engineering disciplines and firms. Deep foundations can be made out of timber, steel, reinforced concrete and pre-tensioned concrete. _ .

Prefabricated piles are driven into the ground using a pile driver. Driven piles are either wood, reinforced concrete, or steel. _ .They are reinforced with rebar and are often prestressed. Steel piles are either pipe piles or some sort of beam section (like an H-pile).

11 istorically, wood piles were spliced together when the design length was too large for a single pile; today splicing is common with steel piles, though concrete piles can be spliced with difficulty.

Driving piles, as opposed to drilling shafts, is advantageous because the soil displaced by driving the piles compresses the surrounding soil, causing greater friction against the sides of the piles, thus increasing their load-bearing capacity.

Foundations relying on driven piles often have groups of piles connected by a pile cap (a large concrete block into which the heads of the piles are embedded) to distribute loads which are larger than one pile can bear. Pile caps and isolated piles are typically.

Connected with grade beams to tie the foundation elements together; lighter structural elements bear on the grade beams while heavier elements bear directly on the pile cap.

Rotary boring techniques offer larger diameter piles than any other piling method and permit pile construction through particularly dense or hard strata. _ . Boring is done until the hard rock or soft rock layer is reached in the case of end bearing piles.

If the boring machine is not equipped with a rockauger, then socketing of the hard rock layer is done with the help of a heavy chisel which is dropped from a height of about 1.5 metres by suspending it from a tripod stand attached to a winch crane. The socketing is carried out until the desired depth within the rock layer has been attained. _ .

Dry boring methods employ the use of a temporary casing to seal the pile bore through water-bearing or unstable strata overlying suitable stable material. _ .Concrete is poured in the bore and brought up to the required level. The casing can be withdrawn or left in situ.

Wet boring also employs a temporary casing through unstable ground and is used when the pile bore cannot be sealed against water ingress. _ . The reinforcing cage is lowered into the bore and concrete is placed by a tremie pipe.