Statnamic Load Test 

Criminally underrated video, and also a similarly unfairly obscure procedure to test the load-bearing capacity of driven piles.

i like how the car alarms go off right after the blast hahahah

What soil/ground conditions call for this test?

No...there is a load cell connected to a data acquisition system. As for displacement, this test either used a laser or accelerometers.

Is the laser affected by the smoke and vibrations?

Hmm, how do do measure the displacement of the pilehead?

Invented by Dr. Patrick Bermingham

Nice test where is the laser?

Dude yo! That chit be Statnamic!

I was born then

laseR?????? ?????? there is no laser