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  • 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

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    Soldier Pile Installation Light Rail Rapid Transit Buffalo, New York - Project Description

    By Daniel J. Rider

    In 1980 the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority contracted for three miles of cut and cover box structure and station construction in Main Street, Buffalo, New York. Project depths ranged from

    Jan 1, 1987

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    Augered Cast-In-Place Piles: Regional Project Profiles - Community Osteopathic Hospital Harrisburg, Pa

    GENERAL CONTRACTOR: ALEXANDER CONSTRUCTORS, INC. STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: CAGLEY & ASSOCIATES, INC. GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER: F.T. KITLINSKI & ASSOCIATES, INC. PILE FOUNDATION CONTRACTOR: L.G. BA

    Jan 1, 2001

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    Dynamic Monitoring Program Results Indicator Pile Tests -I-880 - Introduction

    By D. Michael Holloway

    The realignment of Interstate 880 replaces the double-decked (Cypress) viaduct collapsed in Oakland, California during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. The California Department of Transportation (CAL

    Jan 1, 1996

  • DFI
    Design Parameter For Jacked Pile

    By Sugie Prawono

    Jacked pile is the only piling system in which the load capacity of the pile, at any penetration depth, could be monitored directly during its installation process. Each installed pile could have a gr

    Jan 1, 1999

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    Challenges Associated with the Construction of a Cofferdam – A Case Study

    By Eric S. White, Thomas J. Sabourin, Khuram R. Mohib

    "This paper presents the challenges associated with the design and construction of a steel sheet pile cofferdam supported with one level of grouted anchors in clean to silty sand with gravel. The init

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Bored Piles With Base Preloading By Grouting - The Polish Experience

    By Bolestaw A. Ktosihski

    Preloading of bored pile bases by grouting is an effective way of reducing foundation costs. The bearing performance of a pile may be considerably improved. Various techniques and devices are used. Pr

    Jan 1, 2006

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    Modern Procedures For The Design Of Driven Pile Foundations

    By G. G. Goble

    Significant progress has been made in the past decade in determining the load bearing capacity of pile foundations. Developments in the means of prediction of pile capacity as limited by soil strength

    Jan 1, 1988

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    Deep Foundations In Karst - Lessons Learned From I-40 Corridor Widening In Knoxville, Tennessee

    By James L. Vinson

    Wilbur Smith Associates (WSA) has provided planning, engineering and construction oversight assistance to the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) for three construction projects intended to

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    A Decade Of Concrete Embedded Walls In UK - Synopsis

    By Robert Fernie

    Demographics and Infrastructure demands have led to a significant increase in construction of: deep basements for buildings and, trough structures for Highway and Rail/Metro. Concrete embedded walls u

    Jan 1, 2000

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    Use of Porous Concrete in Secant Bored Pile Walls

    By Matthias Pulsfort, Markus Herten, Rolf Breitenbücher, Claudia Fierenkothen

    "Secant bored pile walls are frequently used as retaining walls in watertight excavations to cut off ground water aquifers and are subsequently exposed to ground water pressure loading in addition to

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Test Pile Program To Determine Axial Capacity And Pile Setup For The Biloxi Bay Bridge

    By W. Robert Thompson

    Hurricane Katrina caused significant damage to transportation structures on the Gulf coast in August, 2005, including the destruction of the US 90 Bridge over Biloxi Bay, Mississippi. Part of the suc

    Jan 1, 2009

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    Limited Access Underpinning And Re-Leveling Of A Six-Story Office Building Using Jet Grouted Micropiles

    By Tom Szynakiewicz

    Micropiles are routinely used in the United States for foundation support and underpinning applications. The high capacities achievable with the use of micropiles, combined with specialty rigs for ea

    Jan 1, 2008

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    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

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    Experience Gained At The Application Of Atlas Piles In Poland

    By Kazimierz Gwizdala

    In recent years, in Poland the ATLAS piles have been successfully applied for some constructions near Gdansk. The piles have been used as foundations for housing and another areas of civil engineering

    Jan 1, 2006

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    Use Of Helical Piles Set Into Soft Rock For 1500-Ton Screw Press Foundation

    By David C. Kraft

    A major manufacturer and user of machine tools had the need to install a screw press machine at its plant site with the following design load requirements: (1) Vertical Compression Live Load = 2000 ki

    Jan 1, 2003

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    Development of New Shaft Resistance Models for Piles Driven in the Puget Sound Lowlands

    By Armin W. Stuedlein, Youssef Bougataya

    Early stage design of driven piles primarily relies on static analysis based on one or a combination of total and effective stress approaches, the latter known as the method to estimate axial capaci

    Jan 1, 2018

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    Foundation Design And Construction In Variable Rock

    By Joel Moskowitz

    A new office complex is being constructed within 25m of the Hudson River in New Jersey. The project, about 140 m by 100 m, will include 4 basements under the entire footprint. The perimeter was to be

    Jan 1, 2002

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    Longitudinal Splitting Of Precast Reinforced Concrete Piles During Driving ? Synopsis

    By B. B. Broms

    The high transverse tensile stresses that develop in precast concrete piles during driving have been investigated experimentally from pile load tests and theoretically using the finite element method

    Jan 1, 2010

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    Value Engineering of Reinforcement used in Large Diameter Drilled Shafts

    By Shahid Islam, Lucian Bogdan

    Deep and large diameter drilled shafts use mostly bundles of Grade 60 (415 MPa) reinforcing bars as longitudinal reinforcement with rebar splices to make it longer. Lower Grade steel requires large nu

    Jan 1, 2018