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  • DFI
    Driven Piles In Glacial Deposits Exhibiting Time Dependent Capacity

    By Upendra L. Karna

    The pile capacity gain with time evaluated and implemented for the construction of the Route 21 Viaduct in Newark, NJ, U.S.A is discussed in this paper. The project consisted of the replacement of mor

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Installation And Testing Of Instrumented Tieback Anchors - Introduction

    By Joan Stoupa

    The expansion of the West Point wastewater treatment plant located in Seattle, Washington, will require a permanent tieback retaining wall to enlarge the plant site for the new treatment plant facili­

    Jan 1, 1990

  • 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
    Presentation #6 - Rapid Load Testing: A New Choice For Pile Testing

    By Michael D. Justason

    ...a global perspective... In March of 2000, the Japanese Geotechnical Society added "Rapid Load Testing" to their national standard for pile testing. In the year 2000. it is estimated that th

    Jan 1, 2001

  • DFI
    Results Of Dynamic And Static Load Tests On Helical Piles In The Varved Clay Of Massachusetts

    By Jorge Beim

    Helical Piles are increasingly being used to support and rehabilitate structures subjected to compressive axial loads. Traditionally, empirical correlations between installation torque and load capaci

    Jan 1, 2012

  • DFI
    Effective Analysis Of Soil-Pile Interaction Under Dynamic Loads

    By Inn-Joon Park

    Major problems associated predicting soil-structure interaction behavior are based on the fact that soil is neither homogeneous nor elastic and soil properties are spatially variable. There also exist

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Design And Construction Considerations For The Use Of Slurry Walls To Construct Water Reservoirs In The Denver Formation

    By Ken Andromalos

    Continued population growth combined with limited water resources in the Denver area has resulted in the conversion of a number of mined out gravel pits in the area into municipal water storage facili

    Jan 1, 2007

  • DFI
    Drilled Pile Design and Installation Challenges in an Urban Environment

    By Satyajit Vaidya, Rudolph Frizzi, Luis Berroteran

    This paper presents design and construction challenges associated with a high-capacity rock-socketed drilled pile foundation system for a 60-story building recently constructed in an urban environment

    Jan 1, 2018

  • DFI
    World Financial Center Foundations, New York

    By G. Tamaro

    The World Financial Center is situated on a 60,000 square meter site at Battery Park City at the southern tip of Manhattan Island. The foundations for the buildings and the related infrastructure pose

    Jan 1, 1989

  • DFI
    Design And Installation Of Pretensioned Spun Concrete Piles To Support A Large Diameter Sewer

    By Naresh Koirala

    The Greater Vancouver Regional District completed installation of a 2.5 Km long, 2400 mm diameter concrete sewer in Delta, British Columbia in 2000. The sewer traverses through area of peat and soft

    Jan 1, 2004

  • DFI
    Application Of Neurofuzzy Approach To Estimate Duration And Evaluate Delay For Diaphragm Wall And Barrette Construction

    By Thoedtida Thipparat

    The diaphragm walls and barrettes are very important to the constructions of multi-storeyed buildings, elevated expressways, subway railway stations, etc. Uncertainties particularly increase in accord

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    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

  • DFI
    Understanding Soils Reports - Presented At A Structural Engineers Association Of Northern California Continuing Education Seminar On Foundations/Excavations, March 1984

    By Loring A. Wyllie

    Preparation, understanding and use of soils reports must be a team effort to be fully effective. The soils engineer must know what is to be built and exactly where. The structural engineer and owner m

    Jan 1, 1986

  • DFI
    The Channel Tunnel Project - Historical Background

    By C. J. Kirkland

    For two thousand years and more, we insular Britons have been grateful for the existence of the narrow strip of water that separates us from mainland Europe. It has given us a sense of security agains

    Jan 1, 1991

  • DFI
    A New Approach To Estimate The Base Bearing Capacity Of Driven Piles Based On SPT Data

    By N. Shariatmadari

    In recent years, determining bearing capacity of piles from in-situ testing data as a complement of static and dynamic analysis has been used by geotechnical engineers. In this paper, different approa

    Jan 1, 2006

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    List Of Delegates

    AUSTRALIA CHAPMAN Gary JOHN WAGSTAFF CONTSRUCTIONS PTY. LTD. 1 Ashgrove Crescent 4060 ASHGROVE BRISBANE HILLAR Jaaes Director J.A. HILLAR & ASSOCIATES 99 Woolwich Road WOOLWICH,

    Jan 1, 1994

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    Aspects of Standardization for Piles in Europe

    By Roger Frank

    "Abstract After noting the importance of standardization for piles, the European system is described (execution, tests and design, etc.). Some important aspects of Eurocode 7 are outlined (like the ro

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Efficacy and Execution of Floating Lattice-Shaped Cement Treatment against Liquefaction

    By Sachihiko Tokunaga, Hirofumi Taguchi, Kenji Maruyama, Hidenori Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Morikawa

    "Abstract The present study proposed a new liquefaction countermeasure to improve sandy ground and conducted a trial execution. The new method is a floating-type and lattice-shaped cement treatment me

    Jan 1, 2014

  • 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
    Small Diameter Piling System Used In Australia

    By P. J. Yttrup

    Small diameter timber piles are used in Australia to solve foundation problems in soft or filled ground and expansive soil. The paper describes the results of pile load tests to develop simple methods

    Jan 1, 1989