Jetty Pile Loading Test-rev-A

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DOC.No

PT. PLN (PERSERO)

OUTLINE PILING LOADING TEST
for COAL UNLOADING JETTY

REV DATE DESCRIPTION PRED CHKD REWD APPD

A 2009-07-02 ISSUE FOR REVIEW BNY SGN NDK HPS

SIGNATURE DATE
APPROVED
REVIEWED
Project:
PLTU 3 BANGKA BELITUNG
2x30 MW
Contract No. PJ/041/DIR/2008
Stage:

Detail
CHECKED
PREPARED
DOCUMENT No.
2B0801-CA/C/T1100-07
REV:
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CONSORTIUM OF

PT.TRUBA ALAM MANUNGGAL ENGINEERING
SFECO GROUP
DESIGN CONSULTANT

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Issued Date: 02.07.2009

PILING TEST SPECIFICATION
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. FOREWORD.............................................................................................................3
2. ENGINEERING GEOLOGY EXPLAIN.................................................................3
2.1. GENERAL CONDITION .....................................................................................3
2.2. THE STRATUM CONDITION.............................................................................4
2.3. BEARING CAPACITY AND ES OF STRATA.....................................................5
3. PURPOSES OF PILE TEST.....................................................................................9
4. CONTENT AND METHOD OF TEST PILE..........................................................9
4.1. LAYOUT OF TEST PILES...................................................................................9
4.2. CONTENT AND AMOUNT OF TEST PILE ......................................................10
4.3. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS .......................................................................11
4.4. EXPERIMENT OF TEST PILE...........................................................................12
5. CONSTRUCTION OF TEST PILES ..................................................................... 14
6. ACHIEVEMENTS OF TEST................................................................................. 15
6.1. INTEGRATION REPORT OF TEST PILE .........................................................15
6.2. INDIVIDUAL REPORT OF TEST AND CONSTRUCTION..............................15

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1. FOREWORD

The project is located at Air Anyer Village, Merawang District, Bangka
Regency, Bangka Belitung Province, which located in left side Baturusa river
700m from mouth of river, approximately 6km away from the Municipality of
Pangkal Pinang.
The plant will consist of two (2) units, having turbine generator net output of
single figure in the range of 30 MW each. The commercial Operation Date
(COD) and handover for the first unit of the plant shall be in Twenty-four
months. The next units COD shall be in Twenty-six months.
This proposal the location of piling test at the Jetty structure area, there are two
(2) unit fixed grab crane standing on the jetty platform. Base on EPC contract
the jetty structure foundation to be used pile foundation.
According to the EPC contract the jetty platform should be used steel pipe pile
material with diameter 609mm.
The work scheme of pile loading test prepared according ASTM 1143-81
Standard test method for piles under static axial compressive load, ASTM D-
4954-1996 Standard test method for High-Strain dynamic testing of piles,
ASTM D-3669 Method of testing individual piles under static axial tensile
load, ASTM D-3966-90 Standard test method for piles under lateral load
and Contract document Book III clausal 4..4.2.4.5. Pile testing for this project

2. ENGINEERING GEOLOGY EXPLAIN
2.1. GENERAL CONDITION
The ground elevation of the plant site is about -2.40 m on the benchmark of
local MSL. The bore holes and static cone penetration tests CPT) have been

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arranged in this geotechnical engineering investigation, and standard
penetration tests (SPT) have been done in the boreholes.

2.2. THE STRATUM CONDITION
According to the test data of the boreholes and SPT from/below the ground
surface to underground about 30 meters, the layers distributed as below:

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2.3. BEARING CAPACITY OF PILE
According to the investigation information and pile axial compression capacity
curve of steel pipe pile 609mm, the worst ultimate bearing capacity of pile
with length between 22 ~24m is about 2250kn or and the maximum lateral
forces is 200kn see below curves. The maximum design limitation bearing
capacity of pile for axial compression load is 1100kn and maximum lateral
forces 70kn.

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3. PURPOSES OF PILE TEST

3.1. Whether the position of test pile at offshore need to be consider equipment or
method for test, craftwork and technical requirements can meet the project
requires will be checked up.

3.2. The vertical bearing capacity of single pile will be identified to provide design
basis for design of engineering pile.

3.3. The horizontal bearing capacity of single pile for609 steel pipe piles will
be identified to provide design basis for design of engineering pile.

3.4. The integrality of welding steel pipe piles will be checked up through low strain
dynamic test.

3.5. The validated datum of contrast between dynamic test and static test will be
established by high strain dynamic test to calculate the feature value of vertical
bearing capacity of engineering pile in order to provide contrast datum for
engineering pile tests.

4. CONTENT AND METHOD OF TEST PILE

4.1. LAYOUT OF TEST PILES
One point of test pile layout of test pile is show in attached drawing a pile
609mm steel pipe pile and the other are some anchor piles for test pile. The
test pile layout is show attached drawing in appendix (dwg no 2B0801-T1100-
04)
If the contractor of pile test adopts other equivalent method of test, he will
decide if anchor piles are needed for test.

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4.2. CONTENT AND AMOUNT OF TEST PILE
Testing piles should be conducted according ASTM code as above and PLN
contract document or other equivalent regulations that are not lower than above
mentioned codes.
Elevation of test pile head is +2,89m that is based on the benchmark of the local
MSL. The soil around piles should be excavated to elevation of -6,64m (from
MSL) before pile test, or contribution of soil above El. -6.64m should be
deducted from bearing capacity calculation.
Low strain dynamic test, high strain dynamic test, vertical compression dead-
load test and horizontal dead-load test shall be conducted for test pile. Specific
content and amount of test pile are listed in tables 2 and 3.
Table 2 List of content and amount of test pile

No.
Spec
(mm)
( m )
Depth
of pile
entering
into
bearing
stratum
Pile-
bearing
stratum
Estimated
length of
pile (m)
(kN)
Estimated
ultimate
vertical
bearing
capacity
(kN)
Estimated lateral
capacity
limit
Vertical
dead-
load test
Lateral
dead-
load test
Low
strain
integrity
test

High
strain
dyna
mic
test
SZ4
609
1.0
SPP
22~24 2200 140 T T T T
MZ*
609

28*(0) T
Total: 1 1 5* (1) 1*(1)
Note: estimate ultimate vertical bearing capacity is 200% x design load.

Table 3 Summary of test items
Test item Quantity Frequency No. of piles
Vertical dead-load test 1 1 SZ4
Dead-load
test
Horizontal dead-load test 1 1 SZ4
Low strain dynamic test 5*(1) 1
SZ4
MZ16MZ19*
Dynamic
test
High strain dynamic test 1 1 SZ4

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4.3. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

4.3.1. Selection of piles
The ultimate value of vertical bearing capacity, uplift capacity and horizontal
capacity of single pile are estimated according to the geotechnical data from PT
Soilent and in this case taken the extreme condition at SPT 49 which listed in
Table 2.

4.3.2. Steel Pipe Piles
The steel pipe piles for the coal jetty shall be spiral welded with size 609 mm
outside diameter with minimum thickness is 9.5 mm, the piles will be produced
meet at least one of the following specification :
a. API 5L
b. ASTM A-53 (with mill certificates to confirm minimum yeild strength
c. ASTM A-252 with the following provision :
- Chemical analysis of material shall show that both the equivalent
carbon content and total carbon content are less than 0.30%
- Unless spiral welds are certified as conforming to the requirement
of ASTM A53 or API 5L-1980, weld shall be 100% inspected by
ultrasonic or electromagnetic inspection according to the
requirement ASTM A53
- The pipes joint shall be fully penetration weld. All weld shall be
inspected by ultrasonic or electromagnetic inspection with 100%
for the first 3m of weld for each position for each welder.
Thereafter, shall be random spot examination of 1 pile joints for
each additional 10 piles joint of weld, If any random spot fails to
meet the acceptance standard, 2 additional random shall be
examined at locations on each pile joints from the failure random

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spot, if still fail to meet the acceptance standard, the entire welds
of 10 pile joints shall be completely examined.
Welding practice and qualification of fabricator shall conform to the
requirement of American Welding Society (AWS) Welding code AWS D1, 1-
86.
Product shall have quality certification and qualification certificate ex factory.

4.4. EXPERIMENT OF TEST PILE
Experiments of test pile will be conducted according to ASTM 1143-81
4954-1996 Standard test method for High-Strain dynamic testing of piles,
ASTM D-3669 Method of testing individual piles under static axial tensile
load and ASTM D-3966-90 Standard test method for piles under lateral load

4.4.1. Vertical dead-load compression test of pile
The vertical dead-load compression test of pile will be conducted according
to ASTM 1143-81 Standard test method for piles under static axial
compressive load
The persistent slow speed load method is adopted in the test. The second grade
load will be applied before settlement of the first grade load is stable. The third
grade load will be applied before settlement of the second grade load is stable
and so on until 200% design load. Every grade load is 25 percent of estimated
bearing capacity limit per single pile. The first grade load can be added
according to double split grade load.
The reading will be observed at the time of 10min, 20min, 30min, 40min,
50min, and 60min within the first hour of load that is added during every grade,
and then once observation is conducted per 30min.

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Criterion of settlement stable: the settlement shall not exceed 0.25mm per hour,
and does not occur twice continuously. (The calculation is based on thrice
continuous observed value within 1.5 hour ).
Conditions to stop adding load: When one of following conditions occurs,
adding load may be stopped.
a) Settlement of certain grade load is fivefold settlement under the action of
the load in front of one grade;
b) The steep dropping section on Load-Settlement Curve (Qs) can be used
to determine bearing capacity limit, and the total settlement of pile head
exceeds 80mm;
c) The settlement under the action of certain grade load is large than twice
settlement under the action of the load in front of one grade, and the
settlement cant be stable 24 hours late;
d) Tensile force of anchor piles exceed the limit value of uplift capacity, or
load reaches yield strength of pile body.
The unloading and observation of unloading settlement: The unloading value is
twice of adding load value. The residual settlement will be observed at the time
of 15min after certain unloading grade. After twice observation, the third
observation will be conducted 30min late, and then the load of one grade is
unloaded. Last observation is done at the time of 3~4 hour after entirely
unloading.

4.4.2. Lateral dead-load test of single pile
The test will be conducted according to ASTM D-3966-90 Standard test
method for piles under lateral load.
a) The lateral load as 25% of estimated vertical bearing capacity limit will be
applied to pile head by oil jack, using anchor piles steel beam reaction set.
Then lateral load will be applied by lateral oil jack.

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b) The single direction polycyclic adding load and unloading method is
adopted. Every grade load is 25 percent of estimated bearing capacity limit
of single pile. The first grade load can be added according to double split
grade load. The load of each grade shall be maintained constantly.
The reading will be observed at the time of 10min, 20min, 30min, 40min,
50min, and 60min within the first hour of load that is added during every
grades.
c) Displacement observation: The reading will be observed at the time of
5min, 10min, and 15min within the first hour of every grade load, and then
once observation is conducted per 30min, as well as the records shall be
made. Until the displacement of one hour does not exceed 0.1mm, and twice
occur continuously, the stability is thought to be reached. Then, the load of
next stage can be added.
d) The lateral bearing capacity limit for per single pile is submitted when the
horizontal displacement of test pile is 10mm and 30mm. Adding load stops
when the horizontal displacement is bigger than 30mm.

4.4.3. Dynamic test of piles (for Unused Pile)
The high strain dynamic test is adopted and the test will be conducted according
as ASTM D-4954-1996 Standard test method for High-Strain dynamic testing
of piles

5. CONSTRUCTION OF TEST PILES
A properly construction should serve as an adequate pile cap for testing purpose
including supporting construction to withstand load during testing, the
construction of test piles should be conducted according to ASTM 1143-81

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3669 Method of testing individual piles under static axial tensile load and
ASTM D-3966-90 Standard test method for piles under lateral load

6. ACHIEVEMENTS OF TEST
The integration report of test pile is mainly served for providing engineering
design parameters of piles. Achievements of test will be assessed combining
CPT, DPT and other original test method.

6.1. INTEGRATION REPORT OF TEST PILE
Integration report of test pile will include following contents:
a) Limits of vertical bearing capacity and horizontal bearing capacity of test
piles;
b) Load-Settlement Curve, Load-Displacement Curve;
c) Dynamic test result of piles

6.2. INDIVIDUAL REPORT OF TEST AND CONSTRUCTION
a) Report of dead-load pile test.
b) Report of dynamic test (Including low strain and high strain dynamic tests);
c) Abnormal phenomena and treatments and results during construction;

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