Many such Solar PV facilities have experienced frost uplift of foundation piles either during the construction phase or during its lifetime. Since frost heave is more of a serviceability related issue, unfactored adfreeze loads without any factor of safety is a usual tendency by the EPC contractors.
For the solar PV farms where pile foundations moved out under the effects of frost after first few winters, it revealed in investigations that all the piles installed at these sites did not anchor below the maximum depth of frost. 100% piles at few sites had therefore to be remediated.
Design of Piles Design of foundation piles for solar PV installation is usually carried out in following steps:• Establishment of maximum frost depth for the area. • Calculation of factored design loads based on wind, dead and reasonable values for adfreeze loads according to soil type.
The governing loads for the foundations of these lightly loaded solar PV structures are usually frost loads in areas facing extremely cold winters. In fine grained soils like silty/ clayey soils, large adfreeze stresses develop due to penetrating frost deep into the soil resulting into uplift of foundation piles.
This paper investigates the frost depths and adfreeze stress related issues with the foundation piles of solar PV facilities hence the governing design forces on these piles and suggests appropriate frost
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