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The bearing capacity of a pile group is typically less than the sum of the individual piles due to stress interference between piles. Pile group efficiency, defined as the group capacity divided by the sum of individual capacities, is often 1.0 for end-bearing piles on bedrock or dense sand/gravel, but less than 1.0 for friction piles in cohesive soils due to reduced soil capacity. The Converse-Labarre equation can be used to calculate pile group efficiency based on number of piles, pile spacing, and diamet
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- Chauhdary Fazeel Ahmed
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- EN