Advantages of the piles testing methods according to the USA standards

摘要

Methodic of testing piles conforming to the requirements of ASTM D1143/D1143M-07 (USA) standard and GOST 5686-94 (Kazakhstan) standard is presented in this paper. The methodic of testing piles conforming to the requirements of these standards have some differences. Discussion of using control equipments, technological features, advantages and disadvantages of aforementioned methodic might be important for understanding the different points. The papers include the results of static tests of piles by using two different standards. These full field scale piling tests were performed in problematical soil ground of construction sites of new capital Astana (Kazakhstan).