Abstract: The LATWAK test consists of hitting in the horizontal direction the side of a pile on which a horizontal velocity transducer is attached. The blow is delivered with a sledge hammer equipped with a dynamic force transducer. ...

Abstract: Three bored piles were built and tested at the National Geotechnical Experimentation Sites, at Texas A&M University, to gather data on the reliability of large-strain dynamic methods to predict the static capacity of bored ...