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Open image in new window Fig. 13 The coefficient of lateral earth pressure versus distance from the pile tip, z for zero vertical stress at a h max and b 2D of z (σv,z is vertical stress at z distance from the pile tip, h max is maximum soil plug height and D is pile outer diameter).

In Fig. 14b, which assumed the vertical stress at 2D distance from the pile tip to be zero, the maximum soil plug height, h max was considered instead of 2D when it is less than 2D distance (i.e., z = h max if h max <2D, see Fig. 14b for more details).

Open image in new window Fig. 14 The coefficient of lateral earth pressure versus penetration depth for zero vertical stress at a h max and b 2D of z (σv,z is vertical stress at z distance from the pile tip, z is distance from the pile tip, h max is maximum soil plug height and D is pile outer diameter).

The soil plug settles with the pile as an intact body in a fully-plugged pile during pile installation (or loading).

Seedlings grown in individual containers have an intact root system encapsulated in a soil plug for planting.

The results further indicate that soil plug height is dependent of sleeve height, where a higher sleeve height produces a smaller soil plug height.

Therefore, soil plug height, h should be corrected to evaluate them for the sleeved-piles.

Open image in new window Fig. 5 The measurement method of soil plug length.

PLR = frac{h}{H} (3)where PLR is plug length ratio, h is soil plug height and H is penetration depth (see Fig. 5).

In the additional mass model, the inertia and damping effect of soil plug, and the displacement phase difference between soil plug and pipe pile are taken into consideration.

When an open-ended pile is driven into a soil, underneath soil penetrates into the pile and generates a soil plug.