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  • DFI
    Creative Shoring Solutions For A Tight Urban Site

    By David G. Winter

    The Olive 8 excavation site in Seattle was surrounded on three sides by conditions requiring innovation, careful modeling, and extensive instrumentation to support use of a first-of-its-kind shoring s

    Jan 1, 2009

  • DFI
    Sonic Drilling Offers Quality Control And Non-Destructive Advantages To Geotechnical And Construction Drilling On Sensitive Infrastructure Sites

    By John P. Davis

    The use of conventional, circulatory air rotary and fluid rotary, cased and uncased drilling methods in the vicinity of sensitive infrastructure can have deleterious effects on the ground conditions s

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Effects Of Mineral And Polymer Slurries On Drilled Shafts - 1. Introduction - 1.1 History Of And Principles Of Mineral Slurries In Drilled Shaft Construction

    By Michael W. Neill, O&apos

    Drilling slurry has become an effective aid to the construction of drilled shafts in caving and/or waterbearing soils. Historically, drilling slurry made of bentonitic clay and water was first used in

    Jan 1, 1991

  • DFI
    Deep Excavations And Foundations For Locks ? Synopsis

    By B. H. Moore

    Foundation and excavation problems associated with lock construction projects vary widely. Each lock requires a different foundation to respond to a unique geologic setting. The range of heights and f

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Design Of Foundation On Granular Piles For Five Storeyed Esidential Complex At Nazira, Assam - Synopsis

    By B. N. Hira

    A multistoreyed residential complex was at the penultimate stage of construction by ONGC at Nazira, Assam. The site was situated at high earthquake zone. The subsoil was very weak and contained soft t

    Jan 1, 1996

  • DFI
    Interdisciplinary And Inventive Approaches To Drilled Shaft Remediation

    By William D. Oder, Seth H. Hamblin, Les R. Chernatskas, Jonathan L. Ernst

    Large diameter drilled deep foundations are a widely utilized solution throughout North America and the world. Numerous design and construction techniques developed over the past 100 years have made t

    Oct 1, 2022

  • DFI
    Experiences Of The Cast-In-Situ Pile Filling In Stone-Line Intercalation

    By Guan Jichang

    An abandened breakwater, located at the rear of No. 2 berth in Dongdu Port area of Xiamen City, was not cleaned thoroughly when the backfilling of sand started. The uncleaned stone layer was about 2 t

    Jan 1, 1991

  • DFI
    Variation Of Load Settlement Relations Of 25 Steel Pipe Piles Constructed In A Site From Rapid Pile Load Testing

    By Tatsunori Matsumoto

    In order to investigate the variation of the load-displacement relations of piles in a site, vertical load tests were carried out on 25 small diameter steel pipe piles. Out of 25 piles, 15 piles were

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Pin Piles For Seismic Rehabilitation Of Bridges

    Since the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area, the California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) has accelerated seismic upgrading of their bridges. Many structures can be i

    Jan 1, 1993

  • DFI
    Field Trials for Deep Mixing in Land Remediation: Execution and Early Age Monitoring, QC and Lessons Learnt

    By Ziyad Abunada, David O’Connor, Abir Al-Tabbaa

    "Abstract Contaminated land remediation using soil mix technology (SMT) is a relatively recent development which has been shown to be a cost effective and versatile system with numerous environmental

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Complex Piling Works At London Blackfriars Station

    By Jamie D. McEwan

    To cater for the future introduction of 12 car trains, London Blackfriars railway station is being extended from the north end to span across the River Thames. Following the demolition of existing bui

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Recycling Jet Grout Backflow: Waste Mitigation and Cost Benefits

    By Craig T. Jones, Zachary Q. Maassen

    "Jet grouting is a method of ground improvement that relies on the erosive capacity of high-speed jets to cut and mix the ground in place with a cementitious grout. A continuous return flow of cutting

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Methods Of Constructing Concrete Piles On Heavily Contaminated Sites

    By N. C. Matheson

    The West's Shell Pile has been used on sites with very soft ground conditions for over 60 years. Fibre reinforced precast concrete shells 900mm long are threadled onto an internal mandrel which c

    Jan 1, 1989

  • DFI
    Case History Of The Support Of Excavation System Used At The Atlantic Building Project In Washington, DC

    By Joseph C. Gillen

    This paper discusses the design, construction, and performance of the support of excavation system used at The Atlantic Building jobsite. The support of excavation system had to be adaptable to the d

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Optimization of Design of Drilled Shaft Foundations by Lateral Load Testing (94ee84ca-5eda-40d1-bba2-d7742a925002)

    By Donald R. Clark

    "Drilled shafts are being used as foundation support for parabolic solar troughs at the Genesis Solar Project being constructed near Blythe, California. Three types of drilled shaft foundations are re

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Optimization Of Design Of Drilled Shaft Foundations By Lateral Load Testing

    By Donald R. Clark

    Drilled shafts are being used as foundation support for parabolic solar troughs at the Genesis Solar Project being constructed near Blythe, California. Three types of drilled shaft foundations are re

  • DFI
    Repair Of Deep Foundations - Summary

    By Dennis W. Boehm

    The building boom of the late 1970's and early 1980's has all but used up most of the better sites across the more populated metropolitan areas of the United States. This means that current

    Jan 1, 1999

  • DFI
    Systematic Evaluation of Foundation Reuse for a Metro Station

    By Haoran Zhang, Chu Ho

    A recent design-build project in New York involved various degrees of additions and improvements to four existing transit stations. Reuse of the existing foundations was considered a more sustainable

    Sep 8, 2021

  • DFI
    Instrumentation Of Construction Vibrations

    By Mark R. Svinkin

    Construction vibrations may adversely affect surrounding buildings and their effects range from human discomfort and disturbance of sensitive devices to visible structural damage. There is no unique c

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Caisson Design And Construction Challenges On The New Tiger Stadium Project - Summary

    By Fritz J. Klingler

    From site demolition, to design, to construction, Detroit's new Tiger Stadium project is required to be completed within a short 2 ½ years from award of the design-build contract. Such extreme sc

    Jan 1, 1999