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Case Study: Feather River West Levee Program Cutoff Walls
By Kyle R. Lackner, Jared P. Williams
"The Sutter Butte Flood Control Agency initiated the Feather River West Levee (FRWL) Program in 2010 to bring 35 miles of levee along the Feather River into compliance with applicable Federal and Stat
Jan 1, 2016
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Secant Pile Top-Down Construction for a Drainage Channel in Puerto Rico: An OPA Finalist
By Bill Shea, Gordon King
"For a drainage channel built in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a value engineering (VE) proposal incorporating a secant pile top-down approach saved time and facilitated construction work on the larger flood
Jan 1, 2012
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Cofferdam Solution for Steeply Sloping Rock Using Flat-Sheet Piles
By Norm Kirk, Robert Bittner
"The addition of a new powerhouse at the existing Tulloch Hydroelectric site on the Stanislaus River in the western foothills of the Sierras Nevada Mountains of central California required a deep exca
Jan 1, 2017
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Soil-Structure Interaction For A Tension Pile Pulled With Strand
By Chandramohan P. V
A unique tension pile where the pull is at a point a certain distance below the top of the pile. The pull is transferred by a cable consisting of high tensile strands. The HDPE duct of the cable preve
Nov 1, 2022
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Trencher Method Vs. Slurry Trenching: A Pros & Cons Comparison Of Case Studies
By Daniel Ruffing, Charlie Krug
In recent years, the chain-style trencher has been proven a valuable tool for installing vertical walls on challenging sites where conventional methods may be less desirable. Like many tools, trencher
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Automation Of Pile Foundation Design Post-Processing To Produce Pile Plans
By Rajasekar Subbian, Jessica Oudhof
In the Netherlands pile foundation design is done using CPTs in accordance with EC7 national annexure. The capacity per tip level is calculated for every CPT followed by zonation to find the tip level
May 1, 2022
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Design And Construction Of The Large Bored Piles For A Bridge Over The Yellow River ? Synopsis
By Y. Z. Wang
Zhengzhou Yellow River Highway Bridge, which is under construction, has a total length of 5550 meters with bored cast-in-place concrete piles as the foundations of its piers which have a diameter of 2
Jan 1, 2010
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Stability Analysis Of A Rubble Mound Breakwater Resting On The Weak Seabed By 2D Finite Element Modelling
By Vijaya R, Boominathan A
The design of a rubble mound breakwater resting on a problematic seabed is quite challenging and expensive. In the present study, stage-wise construction of a typical section of the breakwater for a p
Sep 1, 2022
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A Novel Approach to Incorporate Shear-Moment Coupling Effects in Foundation Stiffness for Caisson Piles for Izmit Bay Bridge in Turkey
By Arash Khosravifar, Amalia Giannakou
"Nonlinear foundation springs for bridge caisson foundations show significant coupling between the shear force and bending moment. Implementing foundation stiffness matrix with coupling effects (off-d
Jan 1, 2017
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Experiences and New Developments in Offshore Foundation (610f0063-3ba0-451b-bb8c-dc3962343edb)
By Leonhard Weixler, Jean Wehbe, Gordian Ulrich, Franz-Werner Gerressen
"As alternative energy industries pick up speed internationally, and as government regulation and restriction limit the use of impact hammers due to environmental limitation from construction induced
Jan 1, 2017
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Design Build & Failure: Perils at a High Risk Shoring and Retaining Wall Project.
By Mark Spence, Tom Lardner, Matthew Janes
"IntroductionThe design-build method streamlines project delivery through a single contract between the Contract manager and the design-build team. The design-build method places emphasis on collabora
Jan 1, 2015
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Self-Hardening Slurry Wall Installation by Hydromill at the Herbert Hoover Dike – An Innovative Solution (05e83755-4ec2-4ed4-a26c-d1e81c41960c)
By Mario Mauro, Jeff Taylor, Carlos Morales
"In 2007 the US Army Corps of Engineers classified the Herbert Hoover Dike in Florida as a Dam Safety Action Classification (DSAC) 1 dam, and started the implementation of one of the largest dam rehab
Jan 1, 2017
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Experiences And New Developments In Offshore Foundation
By Franz-Werner Gerressen
As alternative energy industries pick up speed internationally, and as government regulation and restriction limit the use of impact hammers due to environmental limitation from construction induced n
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Sharing of Lateral Loads and Moments in Pile Foundations
By Andrea Gambi, Giancarlo Olivucci, Maurizio Lenzi
"In the paper a criterion for the evaluation of the sharing of the lateral loads in a piled foundation is presented. It relies on the the compatibility condition between the rotation of the rigid pile
Jan 1, 2005
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Goethals Bridge Replacement Project - Performance-Based Design of the Drilled Shaft Foundations
By Chunli Wei, Mark Jen, Xiaojun Wang
"After more than 85 years of service, a critical link between New York and New Jersey, the Goethals Bridge over the Arthur Kill waterway, is being replaced with two new parallel bridges. Each bridge i
Jan 1, 2016
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A Review of the Design Formulations for Static Axial Response of Deep Foundations from Cone Penetration Test Data
By Fawad S. Niazi
Analysis of deep foundations in terms of axial capacity has been a topic of great interest in the soil-structure interaction problems. Soil behavior is governed by a series of complex stress-strain ch
Jan 1, 2013
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Simulation of Soil Plug Effects in Open Steel Pipe Piles Considering the Complex Soil-Structure-Interaction during Installation
By Johannes Labenski, Christian Moormann, Johannes Aschrafi
"Open steel pipe piles are used for various applications in costal engineering, port structures and increasingly important for offshore structures. During the installation of open steel pipe piles the
Jan 1, 2017
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Bluestone Dam Safety Assurance Program: An OPA Runner Up
By Jeff Hopple
"Bluestone Dam in Hinton, W.Va., along the New River, is owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Completed in 1949, the dam is 165 ft (50 m) tall, 2,048 ft (624 m) wide, and en
Jan 1, 2014
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Dynamic Load Testing of 2 Metre Steel Tubular Piles Driven into Foliated Phyllite Bedrock
By Bosco Poon, Kim Chan, Luis Raúl Castañeda, Geoff McKay
"Driven steel tubular piles of up to 2 m diameter have been used to support abutments and piers of a bridge over Nambucca River and floodplain. The bridge was designed by Arup-Aurecon Design Joint Ven
Jan 1, 1900
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Innovative Driven Pile Solution for the Rhode Island Route 6/10 Interchange Project
By Seth H. Hamblin, Leo J. Hart, John E. Regan
The Route 6 /10 10 Interchange Design/Build project, located in Providence, Rhode Island, involves the design and construction of five (5) new elevated bridge structures to replace and reconfigure the
Jan 1, 2019