ABSTRACT

In the current paper the photoelastic measurement technique is combined with digital image correlation in order to obtain a stress and strain field of the soil near an open ended pile. The paper is an extension on the work of Dijkstra & Broere (2009), as now displacement fields are measured as well as stress fields. The main aim of the paper is to investigate the plugging mechanism at a more fundamental level rather than directly extrapolating the results to design practice.