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  • DFI
    Drilled Shaft Design For Noise Wall Barriers Along I-20 In Columbia, SC

    By Anil Bhandari

    Using subsurface data collected at each drilled shaft location is an ideal approach for conducting drilled shaft design. However, conducting subsurface tests at each drilled shaft location and subseq

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Uncertainty And Bias In Evaluation Of LRFD Ultimate Limit State For Axially Loaded Driven Piles

    By James A. Schneider

    Selection of resistance factors within Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) requires accurate assessment of uncertainty and bias in load and resistance. To date, many studies have focused predomin

    Jan 1, 2009

  • DFI
    SFMOMA Expansion – Multiple Uses of Ground Improvement – A Case Study

    By Scott A. Walker, Frank L. Rollo

    "The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in downtown metropolitan San Francisco, California, is supported on a mat foundation. Although the mat foundation of the original museum was designed t

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Approach Wall Foundations Olmsted Locks And Dam Project ? Summary

    By Jeffrey A. Schaefer

    The Olmsted Locks and Dam project is located on the Ohio River approximately 16.5 miles upstream of its confluence with the Mississippi River. It consists of twin 1200 ft. locks with floating and fixe

    Jan 1, 2001

  • DFI
    Effective Dewatering Is More Than A Pump In The Hole - A Presentation At The Deep Foundations Institute Annual Meeting St. Louis, Missouri, November 1980

    By William J. Rothschild

    Ground water at construction sites can be controlled by properly placed wellpoint dewatering systems. Care must be taken in planning cofferdams to have adequate space for and access to pumps, headers

    Jan 1, 1984

  • DFI
    Foundations For The M25 Motorway Near To Heathrow Airport

    By John F. Spence

    Ever since opening, the M25 motorway to the west of London has carried a rapidly increasing volume of traffic. The section of M25 between the junctions with the M3 and M4 motorways, which is in the ne

    Jan 1, 2007

  • DFI
    3 Recent Developments In Pile Design - Developments In Pile Design

    By W. F. Van Impe

    The design of piles and of pile groups has remarkably progressed over the past two decades. The in­creasing complexity of the building concept implements a more rational approach of the deep foundatio

    Jan 1, 1994

  • 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
    Float-In Cofferdams

    By Robert B. Bittner

    Large diameter piles (2 to 3 m diameter, both driven and drilled) are being used more frequently by designers of bridge foundations. The use of these large piles allows the pile cap to be positioned

    Jan 1, 2013

  • DFI
    Axial Cyclic Degradation of Marine Piles: A Strain-Based Fatigue Limit

    By Aaron S. Bradshaw, Ryan M. Coulson

    The offshore wind industry in the United States is slowly emerging with the recent construction of the first offshore wind farm located off the coast of Rhode Island. The turbines at the Block Island

    Jan 1, 2018

  • DFI
    Dynamic Testing Results Indicator Pile Test Program --I-880 - Introduction

    By D. Michael Holloway

    The California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) evaluated several pile foundation schemes for supporting the structures along the realignment of Interstate 880. The project replaces the double-

    Jan 1, 1995

  • DFI
    A Tale of Two Dams: Performance of Deep Cutoff Walls

    By Donald Bruce, Mark Harris, Wesley Schmutzler, James Sanders

    "This paper evaluates the history, construction and most importantly the performance of two remedial seepage cutoff walls installed in two major dams in the United States. Beaver Dam, on the White Riv

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Presentation #1 - Deep Foundation Inspection And Integrity Testing - Introduction - Why Use Drilled Shafts?

    By Bernard Hertlein

    ¦ Drilled shafts resist scour seismic loads better than groups of driven piles ¦ Drilled shaft construction creates less noise and vibration than driving piles ¦ Drilled shafts permit direct obser

    Jan 1, 2001

  • DFI
    Copenhagen – Denmark Cityringen Metro Project: Innovative Solution for Deep Excavation in Complex Urban Areas

    By Paolo Cavalcoli, Marco Ziller

    "ABSTRACT: In the year 2010 the State of Denmark together with the Municipality of Copenhagen, launched a very important and complex Project : the complete construction of a new double Subway Line :th

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Technical Note - Hollow Threaded Rebar For Cross Hole Sonic Logging Access Tubes Combined With Longitudinal Concrete Reinforcing In Drilled Shafts

    By Josef K. Alter

    Crosshole Sonic Logging (CSL) of drilled shafts requires 1.5-in (38-mm) or 2-in (51-mm) I.D. sonic access tubes to be installed inside the steel reinforcement cage. The sonic access tubes do not contr

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Experimental Evidences From A Pile Load Test On A Driven Composite Pile

    By A. Garassino

    A pile design was performed for a thermal power station in Egypt and more than 4000 piles were to be driven. Technical economical reasons suggested the choice of driven composite LACOR piles designe

    Jan 1, 1991

  • DFI
    Innovative Cofferdams Used On The I-205 Columbia River Bridge

    By Robert Bittner

    The following is a report on the development of two unique and separate cofferdam systems used in the construction of the marine foundations for the I-205 Columbia River Bridge at Portland, Oregon for

    Jan 1, 2013

  • DFI
    Deep Foundations In Hong Kong - Synopsis

    By Martin Pratt

    This paper is an overview of deep foundation engineering in Hong Kong past, present and future. The enormity of the subject compared with the space available makes brevity inevitable. Issues of constr

    Jan 1, 2000

  • DFI
    Design And Construction Aspects Of A Deep Basement In Dublin - Synopsis

    By Philip J. Daynes

    As part of the regeneration of the centre of Dublin, a multi-functional development is being constructed on the site of the historic Smithfield Fruit Market. The site is being developed in three phase

    Jan 1, 2003

  • DFI
    Challenges And Uncertainties Relating To Open Caissons

    By Fathi Abdrabbo

    Open caissons are used for many geotechnical engineering applications. Open caissons may be used as deep foundation elements bypassing weak soils to tip in firm deeper strata, and in rivers and mariti

    Jan 1, 2012