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  • DFI
    State Of The Practice In Florida On Deep Foundation Installationinduced Ground Deformations And Vibrations

    By Boo Hyun Nam, Berk Turkel, Luis G. Arboleda-Monsalve, Jorge E. Orozco-Herrera

    Construction of buildings, roads, and traffic activities generate vibrations to urban infrastructure. The vibrations produced by construction activities have an impact on the soil through which they a

    Oct 1, 2022

  • DFI
    Experimental Study on the Bending Failure Properties of Cement-Treated Soil

    By Takeru Fukaya, Tsutomu Namikawa

    "The bending tensile stress occurs in the ground improvements when external forces are applied to the column and wall shaped ground improvements. Therefore, in the design of the column and wall shaped

    Jan 1, 2015

  • DFI
    Design And Construction Of The Rion Antirion Bridge Foundations

    By Alain Pecker

    The choice of a design concept for a bridge foundation is guided by various factors; several of these factors are indeed of technical origin, like the environmental conditions in a broad sense, but ot

    Jan 1, 2013

  • DFI
    Vibrations Caused by Pile Driving

    By K. Rainer Massarsch

    "Part 2 of 2 (Continued from Summer 2004 edition) By K. Rainer Massarsch, Geo Engineering AB, Stockholm, SwedenVibrations, which are caused by the installation of piles in dry or permeable soils, can

    Jan 1, 2004

  • DFI
    Assessing the Applicability of Thermal Response Testing to Energy Piles

    By C. Guney Olgun, Fleur Loveridge, Tracy Brettmann, William Powrie

    "Abstract Deep foundations are increasingly being used, not just to carry structural loads, but also to act as heat exchangers as part of a ground source heat pump system. Such foundations, often call

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Finite Element Analyses And Cofferdam Excavations

    By Dimitrios C. Konstantakos

    Cofferdam excavations have traditionally been designed with classical design methods that involve direct computations of active or apparent earth pressures. However in contrast to finite element metho

    Jan 1, 2013

  • DFI
    DFI Model Piledriving Contractor Proposal

    With respect to liability damages, claims and costs thereof relating to or ansmg out of contamination, special or non-special wastes, hazardous wastes or pollution in connection with the performance o

  • DFI
    Wadi Dayqah Dam Curtain

    By Frank Haehnig, Harald Krenn, Harm-Christoph Claassen

    "The Wadi Dayqah Dam Water Supply Scheme represents one of the most important projects implemented by the Sultanate of Oman to ensure sustainability of water resources. The principal components of the

    Jan 1, 2016

  • DFI
    Comparison of 2D and 3D Anchor Analysis Methodologies

    By Ruth McKeown, Gilson de F. N. Gitirana, Murray Fredlund, HaiHua Lu

    The current design standards for the use of anchors in slopes is based on two-dimensional (2D) limit equilibrium analyses. Anchors are considered as discrete loads and the 2D anchor, factored based on

    Jan 1, 2019

  • DFI
    Access And Riser Shafts-Detroit River Outfall #2 ? Introduction

    By Edmund J. Cardoza

    The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) provides water and wastewater services to the Greater Detroit Metropolitan Area. Sewerage is treated at the DWSD Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) loca

    Jan 1, 2001

  • DFI
    The Underwater Cut-Off At The Walter F. George Dam

    By Gianfranco Di Cicco

    Seepage problems were recorded for more then 40 years at the Walter F. George lock and dam. In 2001 the Mobile district of The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers turned to the installation of a 200 feet dee

    Jan 1, 2013

  • DFI
    Numerical Analysis Of Mono And Group Suction Piles Under Lateral Loadings In Layered Deposits

    By Juhyung Lee

    Numerical analyses were performed to analyze the behavior of two different type of suction piles (mono type and group type) under various soil layer conditions (uniform silty clay layer, uniform silty

  • DFI
    Back-Calculations Of Centrifuge Tests On Pile Groups Subjected To High-Cyclic Loading

    By Torsten Wichtmann, Jan Macheck, Frederik Broz, Patrick Staubach, Hauke Zachert

    The majority of heavy or strongly loaded structures, for instance high-rise buildings, large span bridges or gas storage tanks are founded on pile groups. However, current design codes and guidelines

    May 1, 2022

  • DFI
    The Micropile Network: Practice Precedes Theory

    By Gary M. Weinstein

    Micropiles have seen increasing use for foundation support and slope stabilization applications over the past half century. Most often designed and installed in groups of vertical or battered elements

    Jan 1, 2003

  • DFI
    Application Of Deep Foundation Structures To Great Bridges In Vietnam

    By Cau T. Bui

    Thanks to Doi-moi (renovation) policy, many great bridges were constructed in Vietnam to meet demands of her booming economy in the recent decade and deep foundation structures were the only alternati

    Jan 1, 2008

  • DFI
    Pile Construction And Related Problems ? Synopsis

    By K. Fujita

    In order to deal properly with the fundamental aspects of pile construction, the following problems and their solutions are introduced: For driven piles - stresses, damage, movements of surroundings,

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Skin Friction Of Excavated Piles In Weathered Granite - Synopsis

    By K. K. S. Ho

    In Hong Kong the design of excavated piles in weathered granite has conventionally been based on a rule-of-thumb which relates the allowable base bearing capacity to the SPT N value, with no allowance

    Jan 1, 1996

  • DFI
    Design And Construction Of The Sutong Bridge Foundations

    By Robert B. Bittner

    The Sutong Bridge across the lower Yangtze River in China will have, when completed, the longest span (1,088 m) and the highest towers (306 m) of any cable stayed span in the world. The foundations f

    Jan 1, 2013

  • DFI
    Evaluating Installation Disturbance of Helical Anchors in Clay from Field Vane Tests

    By John Erikson, Alan J. Lutenegger, Nicholas Williams

    "In order to evaluate the level of disturbance produced in clays during installation, a series of single-helix and multi-helix anchors were installed at a test site consisting of a stiff overconsolida

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Effect of Axial Compression on Lateral Pile Response: Laterally Loaded Test Pile Comparison

    By David S. Graham, Joseph D. Bailey, Paul J. Axtell, Michael K. Muchard

    "Two instrumented test piles were simultaneously subjected to a static lateral load test by jacking the piles apart. One of the piles was loaded in axial compression via kentledge during the lateral l

    Jan 1, 2017