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    Analysis of Laterally Loaded Free-Head Pile Groups in Sand

    By Ashraf M. Eid

    Most research dealing with the problem of laterally loaded piles has been the response of individual piles subjected to lateral loads and/or bending moments. However, piles are seldom used individuall

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Seismic Behavior of Full-Scale Piles in Improved Soft Clay (8135d170-323f-4789-8067-7d5f00fd5bb8)

    By Jin-Wei Huang, Bradley J. Fleming, Sri Sritharan

    "Although soil improvement and its application to deep foundations is gaining popularity in the engineering community, this technique is not widely used in high seismic regions due to lack of fundamen

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Lateral Response of Large Diameter Drilled Shafts in Clay

    By Ke Yang, Robert Liang

    "Drilled shaft foundations are widely used for many types of structures, especially for highway bridges, high rise buildings, and costal structures. The lateral design considerations are crucial for t

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Unconventional Solutions For Construction Of A Hybrid Cut-Off Wall At The Dead Sea

    By Karsten Beekhaus, Sander W. Odijk, Rabea Bahlum, Mazin Adnan, Ayman Abdelh Al Nuaimat, Hassan Farhat

    The Arab Potash Company, APC, is one of the 10 largest potash producers of the world. The solar ponds at the Dead Sea, used for the enrichment of the salt content in the brine, are of crucial importan

    May 1, 2022

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    Effectiveness of Head-Enlarged CDM Columns in Evaluating Settlement of Improved Grounds

    By Y. M. Ha, T. D. Nguyen, D. T. Nguyen, H. K. Choi

    Conventionally, cement deep mixing (CDM) columns are designed to have constant diameters over the improved depth as this facilitates the construction procedures. However, this design pattern may be in

    Jan 1, 2019

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    Consideration on Liquefaction Resistance of Ground Improved by the Sand Compaction Pile Method

    By Kazunori Matsushita, Masaru Sakakibara, Kenji Harada, Naotoshi Shinkawa, Mitsuo Nozu

    The Sand Compaction Pile (SCP) method has been widely used as a typical countermeasure against liquefaction in Japan, and its effectiveness has been confirmed in many case histories of damages caused

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Dealing with Complexities Associated with the Application of Bored Pile Retaining Walls in Urban Developments

    By Abid Adekunte

    "Engineers and developers have witnessed the growing popularity of deep basement structures as components of urban commercial and residential developments. This is often attributed to inadequate surfa

    Jan 1, 2017

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    State of the Art Ground Improvement Technique for a Residential Complex: Case Study

    By Madan Kumar Annam, Hari Krishna Y, I. V. Anirudhan

    "For completion of projects in time with positive results, improvements of productivity and effective project management procedures have become extremely important. This paper discusses a milestone pr

    Jan 1, 2015

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    Design for Installation of Suction Piles in Sand Deposits for Mooring of Floating Offshore Structures

    By Chul Soo Park, Juhyung Lee, Duhyun Baek

    "In this study the preliminary design of suction pile as the supporting system of the concrete floating structures was performed at the offshore pilot project area in Korea. The suction pile of the fl

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Centrifuge Modeling Of Axial Failure Of Helical Piles In Cohesive Soils

    By Richard Schmidt, Lijun Deng, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Weidong Li

    Helical piles are widely used as a foundation supporting a variety of different structures. Understanding the axial behaviour of helical piles is required to confirm the engineering design. Helical pi

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    Experimental Studies on Behaviour of Single Pile under Combined Uplift and Lateral Loads (5ae0a39a-734f-4c2b-bd6b-06fe19e6d6ea)

    By K. Madhusudan Reddy

    "Pile response under combined uplift and lateral load is very important and it is imperative to evaluate the effect of combined loading and only few studies were reported on pile behavior under combin

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Dynamic Centrifuge Model Tests on Pile-Type Deep Mixing Method Reducing Lateral Flow of Liquefied Ground

    By Tsuda Wakaki, Naoki Takahashi, Natsuki Okuno, Hidenori Takahashi, Ikuo Towhata, Yoshiyuki Morikawa

    "Deep mixing (DM) method has been increasingly employed as a countermeasure against subsoil liquefaction in recent years. Pile-type DM, however, is considered to have little effect as a liquefaction c

    Jan 1, 2015

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    Field Testing of Energy Piles at Virginia Tech (eec8519c-b3f5-4281-8615-91be67ef6c77)

    By C. Guney Olgun, Charles Elks, Sherif L. Abdelaziz, James R. Martin, Christopher Fox, Pier Luigi Iovino, Fatih Catalbas, Pierre Gouvin

    "Energy piles are a new innovative renewable energy technology to access and exploit the relative constant temperature of the ground for efficient heating and cooling of buildings. Examples of energy

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Development of Lattice-Shaped Cement Treatment Method for Liquefaction Countermeasure

    By Seiji Mizutani, Hirofumi Taguchi, Makoto Yoshida, Hidenori Takahashi, Naotoshi Shinkawa, Kazuo Konishi, Yoshiyuki Morikawa, Masaya Kawata

    "The lattice-shaped cement treatment method has been used to improve the seismic performance of liquefied sandy soil in Japan. The efficacy of the method has been confirmed by the huge earthquake in J

    Jan 1, 2015

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    Testing and Optimizing Rammed Stone Columns Design as a Soil Improvement Method on Soft Soils for MSE Walls Foundations

    By Bernardo J. Jiménez Vega, Edy L. T. Montalvan

    Rammed stone columns and similar reinforcement systems are used worldwide more frequently as a cost-effective method for improvement of foundations on soft soils. The effectiveness of the treatment me

    Sep 8, 2021

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    Insitu Ground Reinforcement Techniques

    By Peter J. Nicholson

    The methods of reinforcement to be discussed in this paper are all insitu methods, ones that can be used on the soil structure as it exists in the ground, and do not rely on excavation and replacement

    Jan 1, 1991

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    The Influence of Internal Design Factors on the Performance of Geosynthetic Reinforced Walls with Oblique Reinforcements

    By Mohammad Ali Rowshanzamir, Mehdi Aghayarzadeh

    "This article is an effort to improve our understanding of the performance of geogrid retaining structures (GRS) through numerical analyses. The numerical modeling utilized a commercially available fi

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Experimental Investigation on the Lateral Load Capacity of Monopiles in Dense Sand

    By Kenneth Gavin, Weichao Li, Paul Doherty

    "The lateral load capacity is one of the most important issues to be considered in designing piles to resist berthing loads, ship impact forces and for monopiles used in the offshore wind sector. A nu

    Jan 1, 2015