Quality Control
Material inspection reports give assurances of compliance to the job specifications and requirements. A pile driving report provides a record of progress as well as a check that pile meet criteria, affording the opportunity to take timely corrective actions when necessary. On larger, more critical projects, testing and monitoring can be undertaken, with additional dynamic or static testing being employed. The data developed through such testing ensures compliance with the customer’s specifications.
During driving of production piles, representative piles can be checked, blow-by-blow, by dynamic analysis of instrumented piles, in order to verify the integrity of the pile, energy transfer, hammer performance and pile capacity at the time of driving. Dynamic testing of piles can be accomplished by monitoring the pile during driving, both during the test-pile phase and permanent-pile installation, to confirm bearing capacity and/or integrity. Copp’s performs dynamic testing using third-party firms, to the customer’s specifications. Typically, such testing is done at the beginning of the job as well as periodically during installation. The customer’s site engineer will monitor the testing during installation and will approve the work based on such monitoring.
During the installation of helical piles Copp’s uses the most up to date data electronic torque monitoring system. Copp’s has the technology to record true torque from the start of installation to the completion of the installation process.
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