Question

The types of uncased piles used are __________

(a) Swage pile

(b) McArthur cased pile

(c) Simplex pile

(d) All of the mentioned

The question was posed to me in a national level competition.

Enquiry is from Uncased Cast-in-Situ Concrete Piles topic in chapter Pile Foundations of Geotechnical Engineering II

Answer 1

Right option is (c) Simplex pile

The explanation: The following are the common types of uncased cast-in-situ concrete piles:

i) Simplex pile

ii) Vibro pile

iii) Franki pile

iv) Padestal pile.