Experimental study on the frictional capacity of square pile-cemented soil interface with different surface roughness

The frictional capacity of pile-cemented soil interface is similar to the frictional capacity of pile-rock interface as the strength of cemented soil is close to the strength of soft rock. A series of pile-soil interface shear tests were carried out to study the frictional capacity of square pile-cemented soil interface. The shear test results show that the peak skin friction of square pile-cemented soil interface decreased with the increase in the side length of square pile; the failure mode of square pile-cemented soil interface was affected by the cemented soil thickness; the peak skin friction of square pile-cemented soil interface would increase with the roughness of square pile surface when the mean size of coated silica sand reached 0.94 mm, and the peak skin friction increased slightly with the density of coating sand.