9th Week Day 1~5

Learned how to design guardhouse from Ms. Shiao Teng.

o To design a guard house, we need to check criteria as below:
§ Usage of guard house : Determining the loading
§ Check the architectural drawing and check the dimension of beams and columns proposed in architectural drawing.
§ Check the continuity of beams.

Overview of Guardhouse Plan

Helped Ms.Inez in checking of pile markings.

o Check the loading of pile after adjustment in borehole log.
o The borehole log will determine the SPT-N of the pile which is how many blows required by the pile driver into 1.5m of soil. Usually, N above 50 is not recommended as it will cause the pile head to fail.
o The SPT-N usually get higher when we go deeper but sometimes the SPT-N will get high and suddenly drops again. This is due to existence of hard soil layer in between of normal soil. Hence, when going through the hard should, more blows is required.