Designing piled embankments
The Dutch design guideline CUR226 for the design of piled embankments is available since March 2010. Here, you can read more about this design guideline and its Task Group. The Dutch version of the design guideline can be ordered at CUR. A major part of the design guideline is available (in English) in the software tool MPiledRoad. The current ß-version is available free of charge, via Frank Engering. Here , you can read more about MPiledRoad.
Design guideline CUR226
CUR226, design guideline piled embankments
The design guideline CUR226 for piled embankments is available since March 2010. This guideline is in Dutch and can be ordered at CUR. A short English summary is available here. The design guideline includes:
- Requirements of piled embankments. For example the determination of the traffic load and the safety philosophy of the partial factors.
- Requirements and design of the piles.
- Requirements and design of the reinforced embankment. The German design rules of the EBGEO, chapter 9, have been adopted, modified and extended for Dutch circumstances. Calculation rules to predict the deformations on ground level are added.
- Calculations of pile moments and deformations with finite elements. For example horizontal deformations, bending moments, transition zones and borders.
- Execution and management and maintenance.
To facilitate decision making several design models have been validated based on field tests, lab tests, numerical calculations and sensitivity studies Various media have reported on this topic. Please click here for a list of available publications.
CUR task group piled embankmentsystemen C159B
This task group has published the CUR226 - Design guideline for Piled embankments. The task group is still conducting research and intends to publish the next version of the design guideline within a few years.
The task group includes a working group and a feedback group.
Members of the working group are:
Chair: Deltares Unit Geo-Engineering, TU Delft (Suzanne van Eekelen),
Arthe Civil & Structure B.V (Marijn Brugman),
Cofra/ Boskalis (Jeroen Dijkstra),
CRUX Engineering BV (Daan Vink and Almer van der Stoel),
CUR Bouw & Infra (Ton Siemerink),
Fugro Ingenieursbureau (Hein Jansen),
Grontmij (Marco Peters),
Movares (Piet van Duijnen),
Dutch Ministry of Public Works-DVS (Joop Bastiaans),
Royal Haskoning (Martin de Kant),
Strukton Engineering/TU Delft (Jan van Dalen)
Members of the feedback group are:
Breijn (formerly Heijmans),
Eerland Bouwstoffen Management (Dick Eerland),
Gemeentewerken Rotterdam (GWR) (Rudolf Andringa),
Huesker Geosynthetics GmbH (Constant Brok),
INFRA Consult + Engineering (Ballast Nedam) (Dennis Boone),
Ingenieursbureau Geologics BV (also on behalf of Tensar, Theo Huybregts),
Dutch Ministry of Public Works -DVS (Henkjan Beukema),
Tencate Geosynthetics (Gerrit Dortland),
VLAM Consult (Jan van Liempt)
VWS Geotechniek (Erwin de Jong, also on behalf of Van Hattum en Blankevoort)
Voskamp Buisiness Consultancy (Wim Voskamp, also on behalf of Colbond),
Voorbij Funderingstechniek (André de Lange and Simon van Dijk).
