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  • DFI
    Current Pile Foundation Practice In Taiwan ? Synopsis

    By Za-Chieh Moh

    This paper presents a summary of the current pile foundation practice in Taiwan. Constructions of driven piles, drilled shafts, and barrette foundations are reviewed. This paper also briefly summarize

    Jan 1, 1996

  • DFI
    Augered Cast-in-Place Pile Manual, Second Edition, 2003

    The development of Augered Cast-In-Place (ACIP) piles started in the late 1940's when several projects were performed by Intrusion-Prepakt, Inc. utilizing various techniques to place the piling.

    Jan 1, 2003

  • DFI
    Regulations Of Construction Vibrations

    By Mark R. Svinkin

    Regulations are needed to keep construction vibrations in tolerable limits. The existing regulations were developed for low-rise residential structures, but they are incorrectly used for different sup

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    A Study Of Three Test Sites Comparing Theoretical Ultimate Pile Capacities, Static Pile Load Tests, And Psuedo Static Pile Load Test Results

    By Richard D. Short

    The Pseudo Static Pile Load Test, PLT, is a rapid method for determining pile capacity. Pile design is usually based on theoretical calculations of ultimate load capacity using soil data from a field

    Jan 1, 2000

  • DFI
    Technical Aspects And Research In Downdrag

    By Jean-Louis Briaud

    The following is a summary of a very recent report prepared at Texas A&M University for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program and entitled "Downdrag on Bitumen Coated Piles". Anytime the

    Jan 1, 1989

  • 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
    Interlocking Caisson Walls

    By William E. Lardner

    Interlocking caisson walls developed from conventional "soldier pile and lagging" shoring. In the latter, the soldier piles receive directly most of the soil load. Natural arches form in the soil behi

    Jan 1, 1987

  • 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
    Site Management Towards Pile Execution At Qurashiya Bridge

    By Emad W. Shublaq

    Contractual site plans are implemented for executing pile foundations (5 x 5) at segmental concrete bridge. Project schedule demands have forced the contractor to find out the most economical procedur

    Jan 1, 1992

  • DFI
    Caltrans Bridge Seismic Design/Retrofit Criteria ? Synopsis

    By Brian Maroney

    In this paper an overview of the California Department of Transportation's (CALTRANS) bridge design criteria is presented. Special emphasis is focused upon seismic design and retrofit criteria. T

    Jan 1, 1993

  • DFI
    Resonant Driving of Sheet Piles: High Production Sheet Pile Driving With Zero Ground Vibration

    By Mathew Janes

    "Sheet piles remain an economic solution to many shoring problems. However, installation of sheet piling suffers high noise and vibration with conventional impact or vibratory methods or low productio

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Piling Projects Constructed With Vinyl Polymer Support Fluid In Glasgow, Scotland

    By Derek J. Lennon

    Ground conditions in central Glasgow generally comprise loose granular deposits overlying stiffer soils. CFA piling would normally be preferred for urban sites in these ground conditions, but flightin

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Soil-Cement Columns For Building Foundations

    By Osamu Taki

    The development of new auger bits for soil cement column drilling equipment has made it possible to create a homogeneous mixture of soil and cement-reagent slurry. As a result, soil-cement columns are

    Jan 1, 1992

  • DFI
    Excerpts From Drilled Shafts: Construction Procedures And Design Methods - General Approach

    By L. C. Reese

    ? Good construction and inspection presumed. ? Capacity-computation factors are independent of construction method. ? To account for variable or uncertain site conditions, anticipated construc

    Jan 1, 1988

  • DFI
    Performance Of A Large Diameter Drilled Pier

    By A. J. Partos

    One Liberty Place, at 315 m is the tallest building in Philadelphia, PA USA. It is supported on drilled piers socketed in heterogeneous rock. 3832 kN/m2 end bearing and 383 to 766 kN/m2 shaft resistan

    Jan 1, 1989

  • DFI
    Experimental And Theoritical Studies On Pile Capacity - Synopsis

    By K. Rambha Devi

    The paper is an attempt to co-relate the findings of pile capacity using a number of formula suggested by various authors with the actual field load test results. Five locations consisting of wholly s

    Jan 1, 1996

  • DFI
    Comparison Of Static Pile Analyses And Load Test Results

    By Alan B. Wagner

    Data from seven instrumented pile load tests in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and two other instrumented load tests reported in the literature, one in Evanston, Illinois and one in Houston, Texas were reviewed

    Jan 1, 1991

  • DFI
    Site Solutions For The Pisa Tower Remediation - 1 - Introduction

    By Paolo Heiniger

    The aim of this paper is to present the operative solutions devised and then adopted to implement the underexcavation (soil extraction) of the Tower of Pisa, by means of soil extraction. The inter

    Jan 1, 2000

  • DFI
    High-Capacity Rock Anchors Provide Uplift Resistance For Concrete-Filled Steel Pipe Piles - A Case Study

    By James Weaver

    During the past 16 years, the authors have successfully used high-capacity rock anchors installed inside open-ended pipe piles, driven to bedrock, to provide uplift and overturning resistance for vari

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Time-Dependent Bond Regain In Driven Piles In Permafrost ? Synopsis

    By B. Ladanyi

    The design philosophies for piles in unfrozen and frozen soils are compared, and their similarities and differences are underlined. It is shown that in frozen soils, the long term behavior of a pile i

    Jan 1, 2010