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  • DFI
    The Design And Construction Of Large Diameter Base Grouted Piles In Thanet Sand At Blackwall Yard, London

    By J. A. Yeats

    This paper describes the loading to 25MN of a 1.2m diameter bored cast-in-situ test pile founded in the Thanet Sand which was base grouted. The pile was sleeved over the major portion of its length to

    Jan 1, 1989

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    American Developments In The Use Of Small Diameter Inserts As Piles And Insitu Reinforcement

    By D. A. Bruce

    The use of small diameter cast-in-place bored piles is becoming increasingly popular in the United States. Such inserts are used as conventional load bearing piles, and are generally referred to as pi

    Jan 1, 1989

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    Foundation Design And Construction In Variable Rock

    By Joel Moskowitz

    A new office complex is being constructed within 25m of the Hudson River in New Jersey. The project, about 140 m by 100 m, will include 4 basements under the entire footprint. The perimeter was to be

    Jan 1, 2002

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    Impact Of Environmental Regulations On Pile Foundation Design And Construction Using Diesel Hammers

    By R. D. Short

    Environmental regulations for noise and air pollution are directly affecting the type of equipment and construction techniques being utilized for pile driving construction using diesel hammers in Cali

    Jan 1, 1989

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    Reduction Of Local Scour Around Cylindrical Bridge Piers Using Upstream Protective Piles

    By A. K. Bhattacharya

    Cylindrical bridge piers are widely used and equations exist that can predict the maximum depth of local scour around such piers. Scour around piers is an undesirable phenomenon, as it requires the fo

    Jan 1, 2009

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    Soil Profiles Along The Alignment Of The I-880 Replacement Project

    By Mark A. Willian

    The purpose of this short paper is to present soil profiles and basic soils information for the portion of the I-880 Replacement Project alignment where highway structures are to be built. The informa

    Jan 1, 1996

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    Predicting The End Bearing Capacity Of Rock Socketed Shafts

    By Lianyang Zhang

    For optimal design of rock socketed shafts used to support axial loading, it is important to predict the end bearing capacity. The existing empirical methods for determining the end bearing capacity o

    Jan 1, 2008

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    Aseismic Bearing Capacity Of Pile Foundation ? Synopsis

    By J. X. Wu

    An investigation on the seismic damage to buildings with pile foundations in Tianjin region, was conducted after the earthquake which hit Tangshan in 1976. It showed that most pile-founded buildings h

    Jan 1, 2010

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    Axial Cyclic Degradation of Marine Piles: A Strain-Based Fatigue Limit

    By Aaron S. Bradshaw, Ryan M. Coulson

    The offshore wind industry in the United States is slowly emerging with the recent construction of the first offshore wind farm located off the coast of Rhode Island. The turbines at the Block Island

    Jan 1, 2018

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    BRING YOUR A-GaME! THE BENEFITS OF ADVOCATING FOR ADVANCED GEOTECHNICAL EXPLORATION METHODS

    By Derrick Dasenbrock, Mary C. Nodine, Benjamin Rivers

    Up to 50 percent of major infrastructure projects suffer impacts to schedule or cost due to geotechnical issues, many of which correspond to risks related directly or indirectly to the scope and quali

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    Self Drilling Soil Nail Systems To Retain Caving Soils

    By Ali Porbaha

    The use of soil nailing technology as a cost effective alternative for excavation support and slope stabilization has substantially increased in the United States during the last decade. For example,

    Jan 1, 2006

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    2D And 3D Analysis Of New Austrian Tunnelling Method

    By G. R. Dasari

    New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM) has been analysed by Finite Element method in two and three dimensions by Strain Dependant Modified Cam Clay (SDMCC) Model. The effects of construction sequence,

    Jan 1, 1996

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    Analysis Of Piled Raft Foundation ? Synopsis

    By Gandhi

    Piled raft foundation under uniformly distributed vertical loads has been analyzed using Finite Element Method. The soil is considered to be linear elastic, isotropic, homogeneous. The raft,pile and t

    Jan 1, 1996

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    Rehabilitation Of Tilted Large Drainage Caisson ? Synopsis

    By M. A. El-Sohby

    The paper describes some problems encountered with the foundation of a deep drainage caisson constructed on the Nile Bank in Cairo. The use of suction dredging while sinking the caisson led to a pipin

    Jan 1, 2010

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    Building Above And Excavating Below An Iconic Building In Manhattan

    By John S. Civetta, Seth Martin, Marc J. Gallagher, Arthur J. Alzamora, Ronald Peralta

    The Crown Building, built circa 1921, is a 26-story iconic building located at West 57th Street and Fifth Avenue in the heart of Manhattan. The paper highlights collaboration between the geotechnical

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    Analysis Of Static And Dynamic Horizontal Load Tests On Steel Pipe Piles

    By Pastsakom Kitiyodom

    In order to estimate the deformation and load distribution of a single pile subjected to dynamic horizontal load as well as vertical load, a simplified method of three-dimensional numerical analysis,

    Jan 1, 2006

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    Effect Of Stabilizing Soft Super-Saline Soil By Vibroflotation ? Synopsis

    By S. F. Fu

    The Charkhan Salt Lake area of the Chaidamu Basin in West China is characterized by soft super-saline soils with very high contents of soluble salts. From the engineering point of view, these saline s

    Jan 1, 2010

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    Foundations For Offshore Wind Energy Converters - A Review Of Some Current Scadinavian Development Projects

    By K. Viking

    This article deals with some of the civil engineering related problems to be encountered when offshore wind energy projects transform from prototype offshore wind energy converter farms, developed and

    Jan 1, 2005

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    A Simple Solution For Slope Stabilization Using Micropiles

    By Dan Brown

    A method is outlined for computing the contribution of a micropile group to global stability of a sliding mass. The forces in the micropile are computed in a way which accounts for the effect of soil

    Jan 1, 2007

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    Brightman Street Bridge Replacement Project

    By Arturo Ressi di Cervia

    Construction of the drilled shafts for the Brightman Street Bridge Replacement Project were not only challenging due to working over the water but were also challenged by changed soil conditions, conc

    Jan 1, 2003