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The impact pile driving method is widely used for the reinforced concrete piles and metal tubular piles with a large weight. Pile driving is a dynamic process: the energy of heavy hammer impact on the pile head is transmitted through the pile shaft and pile toe to the surrounding soil, exciting vibrations of the soils particles and propagation further to the ground. Propagation distance is increasing with driving depth. Impact borned waves must be taken into account during construction work near existing buildings...

Vibration driving of piles into a soil is a complex mechanical process, accompanied with such phenomena, as a changing of structure of soil surrounding the driving element, soil liquefaction, decreasing of friction forces between soil and surface of the driving element. During vibratory driving of sheetpiles and piles the vibrations arise in the surrounding soils. The effect of these vibrations on closely located buildings or structures may lead to damage or destruction due to additional uneven ground settlement, ...

Open-ended steel tube piles are widely used in marine construction, coastal engineering, port and offshore structures. During the installation of pipe piles with open end into the noncohesive sandy soil plugging effect usually appears (mainly under impact driving). It complicates the pile driving and may cause the increasing of the pipe pile wall thickness. In this paper the method of estimation of the possibility of plug formation inside pipe is elaborated with help of dynamic modulus of Plaxis 8v software. This ...