STATNAMIC Load Test

STATNAMIC LOAD TEST

The STATNAMIC load test has been developed to meet the construction industry's demand for an accurate and cost-effective method of determining the load bearing capacity of caissons and high capacity piles. Developed jointly by Berminghammer Foundation Equipment of Canada and TNO Building & Construction Research of the Netherlands, STATNAMIC can be used on any pile type with minimum pile preparation. Loading is perfectly axial and the relatively slow application and release of compressive forces eliminates tensile stresses, compressing the pile and the soil as a single unit. As a result, static load-displacement behaviour can be obtained.

Conventional static load testing methods for deep foundations are expensive, time consuming, and cumbersome. Dynamic load testing methods do not provide direct measurements, induce high accelerations, and load-displacement behaviour is controlled by the action of stress waves. STATNAMIC testing overcomes the practical difficulties of both static and dynamic load tests.

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