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Alternative Deep Basement Solutions for Built- Up Areas
By Abid Adekunte
"In recent years, developers have had to deal with complexities associated with numerous cases of deep basement construction in built-up areas. Design and construction of deep excavation support syste
Jan 1, 2015
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Underpinning And Micropiling To A Four Storey Apartment Building In Hamilton, Scotland
By Clifford J. Wren
A geotechnical foundation solution was required to halt and prevent further structural distress suffered by a residential four storey apartment building in Hamilton, Scotland. Residents of the ten ye
Jan 1, 2008
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Helical Piles Performance In Golestan Loess Deposits Via Fullscale And Physical Modeling Testings
By Abolfazl Eslami, Fatemeh Rostami, Sara Heidarie Golafzani, Mohammad Arabameri
Collapsible loess is classified as problematic soil found in most continents. The loess immediately collapses under stresses induced by axial compressive loading or the soil weight when exposed to moi
Oct 1, 2022
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A Study on Bearing Capacity of Waveform Micropiles Using Centrifuge Test
By Chengcan Wang, Jin-Tae Han, Young-Eun Jang
"The waveform micropile is a newly developed foundation type for increasing the bearing capacity with the created shear keys on the pile’s shaft. Analyzing the increment of resistance at the shear key
Jan 1, 2016
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Shear Walls Used For Liquefaction Stabilization Of Earthen Dam Embankments
By Peter J. Nicholson
Recognition of the liquefaction susceptibility of dam embankments has been heightened since the San Fernando Dam near failure incident in 1971. Both the downstream and upstream slopes of dams can be
Jan 1, 2008
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Underwater Pile Hammers
By Douglas L. Scaggs
Driving piles in under water applications has become more common place over the past twenty years. Where only a water depth reachable with a follower or dewatered cofferdam was the rule in the past,
Jan 1, 2013
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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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First Use In The USA Of The CSM Method For Use As Microtunnel Sending And Receiving Shafts
By Brett K. Mainer
In the summer and fall of 2007, Drill Tech Drilling and Shoring, Inc. designed and built three 24-foot inside diameter shafts in Northern California using soil mix panels for support. The soil mixing
Jan 1, 2008
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Design Of Cost-Effective Retaining Wall At The Junction Of Approach Bridge Over A Ramp
By Dr. Anup Kumar Mandal, Partha Roy, Shuvranshu Kumar Rout, Dipak Mandal, Biswajit Das
Installation of a new scalping station with bunker, apron feeder, scalping screen, ramp -retaining wall and approach bridge was planned in an existing integrated complex of phosphate fertilizer at a r
Sep 1, 2022
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Design And Construction Of The Rion Antirion Bridge Foundations
By Alain Pecker
The choice of a design concept for a bridge foundation is guided by various factors; several of these factors are indeed of technical origin, like the environmental conditions in a broad sense, but ot
Jan 1, 2013
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Construction Of The Main Tower Pier Caissons For The Greenville Bridge In Mississippi
By F. Keith Jacobson
To be involved in the construction of a deep dredged caisson for a major bridge pier is one of the most rewarding and professionally challenging experiences one can have in the bridge construction bus
Jan 1, 2013
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Oakland Turning Basin Bulkhead Spin Fin® Pile
By Todd Nottingham
Channel deepening of major ports is challenging designers to explore innovative solutions to ensure stability of bulkheads, such as for the Oakland Inner Harbor. This particular challenge was met with
Jan 1, 2008
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Evolution Of Deep Foundation Systems Used At The Port Ivory Intermodal Facility Site; 1906 ? 2004
By Aly M. Mohammad
The Howland Hook Terminal Facility located in Staten Island, New York is one of the most active container terminals in the Northeast United States. Due to the high capacity of the facility, the Port A
Jan 1, 2004
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Use of Post-Grouted Drilled Shafts in Coastal Mississippi
By Jacob A. Jordan, Rachel M. Garrett, W. Robert Thompson III, James C. Pegues
"Environmental control structures for an existing fossil-fuel power generating plant near Pascagoula, Mississippi faced several design and construction challenges due to space limitations. Conceptual
Jan 1, 2015
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Evaluation Of Existing P-Y Models For Caliche Based On Numerical Analysis Of Raiders Stadium Lateral Load Tests
By Ramin Motamed, Fahim M. Bhuiyan, Raj V. Siddharthan
Numerical lateral load analysis based on the beam on Winkler foundation (BNWF) model (i.e., the p-y method) is a simple, and widely used tool to predict lateral responses of drilled shafts from field
Oct 1, 2022
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Developments In Coatings To Combat Negative Skin Friction - Bitumen Coatings: Practical Design And Construction Aspects
By George Machan
Bitumen coatings have been successfully used to significantly reduce downdrag on piles. Thicker coatings of "soft" bitumens can accommodate downdrag so well that very little downdrag load is transferr
Jan 1, 1989
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Calibration of the Gates Pile Driving Equation for LRFD in Louisiana
By Glenn J. Rix, Eduardo Tavera, Raphael Siebenmann, Zhongjie Zhang, Robert C. Bachus, Jongwon Jung
"The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LADOTD) uses a variation of the FHWA-modified Gates equation to verify the nominal pile bearing resistance, typically on smaller projects w
Jan 1, 2017
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Field Testing Of Energy Piles At Virginia Tech
By Olgun
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
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Finite Element Analyses And Cofferdam Excavations
By Dimitrios C. Konstantakos
Cofferdam excavations have traditionally been designed with classical design methods that involve direct computations of active or apparent earth pressures. However in contrast to finite element metho
Jan 1, 2013
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An Investigation Of Pile Foundations Installed During The Late 19th And Early 20th Century For Re-Use In Building Support
By Scott M. Doehla
A proposed rehabilitation of a 200,000 sf, 75-foot high steel-frame building at the former U.S. Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York required the review of existing foundation data and an investigation of
Jan 1, 2008