TYPES OF PILE FOUNDATION

• SHEET PILES: Equipped with a vertical interlocking system, sheet piles are long structural sections that create a continuous wall which is used to retain soil or water. The dependency of a sheet pile's ability to perform is on the geometry and the type of soil it is driven into. The pile transfers pressure from the high side of the wall to the soil in front of the wall.

• LOAD BEARING PILES: Load bearing pile are used to transmit the load of a structure through a soil layer which is too weak to support the structure. Pile acts as a column to transfer the load through the weak layer to a stronger layer. This type of pile is designed similar to a reinforced concrete column except the buckling is not considered in the design. 

• FRICTION PILES: Also called floating piles, friction piles receive their bearing capacity through shear stresses along the sides of the pile. They are best used in places where the hard layers of the soil are too deep to reach. Friction piles transfer the load from the topsoil to the bottom with the help of adhesion between pile surface and soil. 

• TIMBER PILES: Like the name suggests, this type of pile is made from timber obtained from teak, sal, deodar, etc. They can be square or circular in shape.