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  • DFI
    Integrity Testing of Drilled Displacement Piles at a Major Campus

    By Mark D. Fuhriman, Parham Khoshkbari, Robert Fosse

    Drilled displacement piles are becoming an increasingly common deep foundation choice for their relatively simple installation methods, applicability to a wide range of subsurface conditions, and vers

    Sep 8, 2021

  • DFI
    Forensic Evaluation Of Bored Piles For A Factory Project At Jhajjar

    By Sanjay Gupta, Sorabh Gupta, Ravi Sundaram

    A geotechnical forensic evaluation of piles for an industrial facility in Haryana was performed to assess the quality of the piles and to evaluate piles installed using two different types of rigs. Lo

    Sep 1, 2022

  • DFI
    Insight to Foundation Construction of Extradosed - 3rd Narmada Bridge over River Narmada, Bharuch, Gujarat

    By Ekhlaq A. Khan

    "The new third Bridge over Narmada River at Bharuch which was recently completed is characterized by some aesthetically appealing elevations of the pylon and large size of the deck. This paper gives a

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Slurry Wall Design for Construction Using Soil Structure Interaction

    By Nino Catalano, Meeok Kim, Gordon Chen

    "The design of the below grade structure of Brigham Building for the Future (BBF) included three different areas to provide power generation and medical facilities as well as a parking garage. The thr

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Numerical Analyses Of Pile Load Testing And Pile Base Grouting

    By Wen-Chieh Cheng

    Two bored piles with base grouting are loaded axially and the results are used to compare with numerical analyses. One compressive pile with a diameter of 2 meters is drilled through clay deposit and

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Preserving The Foundations Of Some Of Boston?s Oldest Buildings

    By Michael J. Atwood

    Many buildings in Boston are founded on untreated wood piles, which can deteriorate and lose their structural capacity if groundwater levels are lowered below the tops of the piles, exposing the wood

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Innovative Deep Foundation Support Using Ductile Iron Piles

    By Thomas Billups, Brendan FitzPatrick, Doug LeDo, David Carchedi

    "Working in urban environments presents unique logistical challenges beyond those typically associated with traditional geotechnical analysis and design. These challenges often include working on site

    Jan 1, 2016

  • DFI
    Design-Build Support Of Excavation For Block 76, Salt Lake City, Utah

    By Rick Deschamps

    The Block 76 project includes the demolition and redevelopment of an entire city block for mixed use retail, office and residential properties directly adjacent to Historic Temple Square in Salt Lake

    Jan 1, 2009

  • DFI
    Design And Preliminary Investigations For Deep Foundations Of The Charleroi Locks River Wall Project, Monessen, Pennsylvania

    By Brian H. Greene

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, is in the final phases of modernizing the locks and dams on the Monongahela River. One facet of this modernization is to replace the existing Lo

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Pile Load Test Results For Highway 280 Pile Uplift Test Site

    By Douglas Brittsan

    This paper presents pile tension and compression load test results for the Southern Freeway Viaduct (North) pile load test site. The testing program represents a collaboration between California Depar

    Jan 1, 1993

  • DFI
    Drilled Shaft Foundations For The KcICON Missouri River Bridge

    By Paul J. Axtell

    The design-build delivery system is being used to erect the landmark Christopher Bond Bridge as part of the kcICON project. The cable-stayed bridge is currently under construction and will span the M

    Jan 1, 2009

  • DFI
    High Capacity Drilled Cast-In-Place Piles, House Of Representatives Building, Lansing, Michigan - Summary

    By Robert C. Rabeler

    Soil and Materials Engineers, Inc. (SME) has utilized drilled cast-in-place (D-CIP) piles on a number of projects in the midwest. These foundation systems have typically consisted of drilling an 8 to

    Jan 1, 1999

  • DFI
    Accessing History

    By Richard Pizzi

    Built in 1806, Boston's African Meeting House is the oldest surviving Black church building in the country. A $7 million dollar renovation was begun in 2006 to restore this historic building to

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Wharf Damage Due To Settlement Of Deep Soft Subsoil ? Synopsis

    By Z. Y. Ding

    This paper emphasize two points in piled wharf design which are important than structure calculation. First, during design of piled wharf on soft stratum, the bank slope stability is the first importa

    Jan 1, 1991

  • DFI
    Application of Dry Jet Mixing to Earthquake Disaster

    By Kozo Takeda, Arashi Shimano

    "Dry Jet Mixing (DJM) method as the representative deep mixing technique has been demonstrating best practice on ground mitigation works coping with complicated soil condition and limited site space.

    Jan 1, 2015

  • DFI
    Post-Tensioned Diaphragm Wall "T" Panels For Large Unbraced Excavation Spans - Introduction

    By Nino Catalano

    The combination of two top levels of cross-lot braces designed and installed to act as a truss, and vertical post-tensioning of the panels allow the unbraced excavation of a 36' span. Philoso

    Jan 1, 1994

  • DFI
    Guidelines for Soil Mixing

    "1.0 INTRODUCTIONThese Guidelines reflect the state-of-the-practice of the Deep Mixing Method (DMM) in North America. DMM is an in situ mixing process that breaks down the soil structure; injects bind

    Jan 1, 2016

  • DFI
    Overview Of The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Deep Foundations Research ? Introduction

    By John L. Walkinshaw

    It is obviously not possible in the time given me today to review in great detail all the research of the past 20 years that the (FHWA) has sponsored or participated in. In this presentation I wil

    Jan 1, 1993

  • DFI
    Modification of Best-Fit Interpretation Method for Ultimate Capacity of Screw Pile

    By Adnan A. Malik, Tadashi Maejima, Jiro Kuwano

    "ABSTRACTTheoretical approach to estimate the ultimate pile capacity gives a rough idea at the initial stage of design that later on strengthen by the execution of static pile load test at site. The s

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Case Study: Large Diameter Helical Pile Foundation for High Voltage Transmission Towers in Soft Glacial Deposits

    By John Dunn, Matt Hawley, Kashif Butt, Nicholas Gura

    "This paper presents the results of a static load testing program completed on helical pile foundations for the replacement of high voltage transmission line tower structures. The foundations were par

    Jan 1, 2017