Paper Title
Assessment of Pile Foundation Performance by Conducting In-Situ Load Tests in Non-Liquefiable and Liquefiable Soils Conditions

Abstract
Pile foundation systems are commonly provided to transfer the loads from superstructures to a competent founding stratum at deeper level for any structure, if suitable soil stratum is not available at shallow depth. Pile load carrying capacity in field is assessed by in-situ testing. It is sometimes observed that the actual load taking capacity at site differ significantly from predicted value evaluated from numerical or analytical methods during pile design due to various reasons. Pile load carrying capacity may differ from predicted due to abnormal variation of soil profile than the assed during geotechnical investigation. Because deployments of various pile foundation construction methodology, the soil along the pile profile will not be remain virgin and will get disturbed and stressed during boring and drilling operation. Various in-situ tests such as vertical load test and lateral load tests are carried out to assess its load carrying capacity. Integrity tests of the pile foundations are conducted to assess the quality or condition of pile after construction. In the present paper, the procedures, guidelines of various in-situ pile foundations tests such as lateral load test, vertical load tests, cyclic load test and integrity test are presented. Experimental tests such as vertical load test, lateral load test, cyclic load test and integrity load test conducted to assess the capacity of pile foundations to study the insight. Experimental study of pile foundation in non-liquefiable soils and liquefiable soil and presented. Finally, some important findings from present research are concluded. Keywords - Pile foundation; Pile load test; Vertical load test, Lateral load test, Integrity test;