Determining the weight of the hammer based on expert experience for estimating load-carrying capacity

Abstract

Inexperience geotechnical engineer has difficulty in specifying the best type of weight of the hammer. Here, this study aims to help inexperience geotechnical engineers to decide the optimum weight of the hammer on the pile driving machine. The Bayes method is applied to decide between drop hammer and diesel hammer pile driving machines. Furthermore, we interviewed the expert by several questions about the criteria of the best pile driving machine using a Likert scale. The result suggests that the best type of pile driving is Drop Hammer. The weight of the hammer required to carry out the piling process is 0.9 ton. Recommendations for allowable bearing use the Meyerhof 1976 method. This condition meets the workload that more 141.14 tons at a depth of 26 m when using a square pile dimension of 35 x 35 and 40 x 40 cm. The dimensions are 45 x 45 cm, the recommended depth of piles is 26 m. the allowable bearing carrying when compared with the dynamic capacity using the Hilley, ENR, and WIKA methods meet the requirement. This is given the result of the allowable load-carrying capacity of 170 tons that less than 280 tons until 390 tons at dynamic capacity.