Bituminous coatings can be used to reduce negative skin friction on pile. The present
study investigates the other applications and the effectiveness of heated coating with
elastic and visco-elastic-plastic behavior on the skin friction at soil-pile interface. A
series of small scale physical modeling tests of short pile foundations under pullout load
was carried out to study the effects of adhesive coating materials on the short pile foundation
interaction. The results indicated that heated bituminous materials can significantly
affect the pull-out capacity of short pile foundations.
