6.11 Pile driving system

The mechanical pile driving system (Photo 1) is in the form of a detachable carriage which houses the driving ram and is guided by an actuator which follows the pile during driving. The actuator is powered by a variable speed servo motor allowing movements of the carriage in both the horizontal and vertical directions. Schematic diagrams of the overall pile driving system and details of the driving carriage are shown in Table 1 and Fig. 1.

 

Photo 1 Photograph of the pile driving system

 

Fig. 1 Cross-sectional view of the centrifuge test package (Presented by The University of Western Australia)

 

Table 1 Mechanical properties of the pile driving system (The University of Western Australia)

 

Reference

de Nicola, A. and Randolph, M.F. (1994) : Development of a miniature pile driving actuator, Proc. of CENTRIFUGE 94, pp. 473-478.