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Determination of the Mechanical Properties of Flexible Connectors for Use in Insulated Concrete Wall Panels
Published on: October 19, 2022
Dataset from flexural, impact, and hydraulic pressure tests on driven energy piles
Habibollah Sadeghi1, Jukka Haavisto2, Teemu Tupala3
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Abstract:
Data from the flexural, impact, and hydraulic pressure tests performed on seven precast concrete driven energy piles is presented in this paper. The data is published and made publicly accessible through the open-access database DataverseNO. The dataset involves (a) material properties of all of the materials used in manufacturing the energy piles, (b) raw data files from impact tests, which are recorded by the pile driving analyzer (PDA) device and sensors, (c) the hydraulic pressure test data performed between the impact and bending tests, which includes the raw data of pressure measurements from analogue pressure gauge, and (d) the data from the bending tests which includes the raw and processed data files recorded by the displacement transducers, loadcell and also the raw and processed images for the digital image correlation (DIC) analysis. Firstly, the value of the data for future use is explained in this paper. Secondly, the structure of the data available through the open-access database and the processing methods are described. Lastly, the setup for data measurement is presented for all the tests. The practical applications of this dataset are substantial for civil engineering projects, as it provides essential benchmarks for the design and validation of structural joints for precast concrete driven energy pile foundations. Furthermore, the dataset provides the structural performance details of the joint under impact and bending, serving as a valuable resource for the numerical modeling validations.
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