Abstract
A bearing capacity of vertically loaded steel steet piles was investigated in the present paper. Although sheet piles have been widely used for several kinds of the structures and so required to resistance against the axial loads in these days, a bearing capacity of them has not been sufficiently studied so far.
The bearing capacity of steel sheet piles was investigated by full-scale field load tests and a series of small model tests, where the failure patterns of the model ground around the vertically loaded sheet piles were visualized and investigated with X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner. Consequently, the authors have proposed the vertical load-carrying mechanism of steel sheet piles placed in the ground.
