AN ASSESSMENT OF DESIGN METHODS FOR PILED EMBANKMENTS

There is considerable uncertainty among design engineers about the behaviour of piled embankments, and the applicability of the British Standard BS8006 (1995) for strengthened/reinforced soils. This paper presents a study to understand the behaviour of piled embankments better by comparing existing design methods with results from three-dimensional numerical analyses. Two UK case histories were investigated. The A13 piled embankments had...