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  • 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

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    Dynamic Horizontal Load Tests On Steel Pipe Piles Having Different Sizes In The Same Construction Site And Their Analyses

    By Eiji Kojima

    In this research, dynamic and static load tests were performed on permanent foundation piles which had a pile length of 30 m, 800 mm in outer diameter and 15 mm in wall thickness. In this site the dyn

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Design And Construction Imposed By Unique Geological Conditions In Paris, Milan And London ? Summary

    By Chris Harnan

    This paper describes the geology of three European cities and outlines how the geology has lead to the development of specific foundation construction techniques. Comparative tables of techniques

    Jan 1, 2000

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    Hyperbolic P-Y Model For Static And Cyclic Lateral Loading Derived From Full-Scale Lateral Load Testing In Cemented Loess Soils

    By Steven Dapp

    A new hyperbolic model for generating P-Y curves is developed for use in lateral analyses of cemented soils (a ?C-F? soil with both cohesive intercept and friction angle), and includes degradation of

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Use Of Controlled Modulus Columns In Retail & Industrial Development Projects

    By Frederic Masse

    With widespread acceptance in the market place, many engineers are choosing ground improvement techniques to provide suitable foundation subgrade at sites that would have traditionally required deep f

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Residual Loads Measurements in Driven Steel H-Piles

    By Reda M. Bakeer

    "Measurements obtained during load testing of two steel H-piles driven at a site in Northeastern Mississippi are discussed. The general site conditions, equipment used, testing procedures and results

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Micropiles below Groundwater at the South Auditorium Block Site, Buffalo, NY

    By Mary C. Nodine, Michael P. Walker, Paul Eggers, Donald E. Aubrecht

    The CANALSIDE commercial development in Buffalo, New York serves to revitalize the former site of the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, adjacent to Lake Erie. The Auditorium was constructed in 1940 and fou

    Jan 1, 2018

  • DFI
    A New Method of Quality Control for Construction Joints in Diaphragm Walls

    By Nikolaus Schneider

    "Abstract: The combination of failure in joints of diaphragm walls and their exposure to water pressure may have far reaching effects ranging from water leakage to the risk of catastrophic loss of sta

    Jan 1, 2014

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    Hand-Excavated Pier Foundations For A High-Rise Hotel In The City Of Dalian, China ? Synopsis

    By A. K. C. Chan

    Recent hotel investment projects in China often involve very tight programmes for design and construction. An example given in this paper involves a 24-storey reinforced concrete hotel tower with 460

    Jan 1, 2010

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    Comparison of Pile Foundations and Ground Improvement for Reduction of Seismic Displacements for a Wastewater Treatment Plant

    By Andrew Port, Ali Ghandeharioon

    Nonlinear seismic deformation analyses using the finite difference program FLAC were performed for a wastewater treatment plant to estimate foundation displacement and performance of two proposed tric

    Jan 1, 2018

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    Slurry Walls In Building Construction - Urban Conditions

    By Louis Donolo

    New buildings in today's urban environment, especially in down-town areas, invariably involve the construction of multiple level basements. Used for parking, storage and commercial space, these u

    Jan 1, 1987

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    Resolution Of Prestressed Concrete Pile Splice Problems - Summary

    By David Siu

    Many problems were encountered with the mechanical wedge-type splices used for the 15-inch square precast prestressed concrete piles installed at an industrial plant site. Many of the wedges were brea

    Jan 1, 1991

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    Downtown Seattle Transit Project - International District Station

    By Richard K. Sandaas

    Start Date: April 4, 1988 Completion Date: Dec. 29, 1989 Contractor: SCI Contractors Past and present transportation centers will come together at International District Station, located at th

    Jan 1, 1990

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    Value Engineering – Design Risk and Reward at Major Sport Arena Projects

    By Peter Faust, Jeremy Zorne, Timothy Siegel, Diane Fiorelli

    Professional sport venue construction follows a very simple rule. Once the decision has been made to move the team to a new place, construction shall begin immediately, so that not more than one or tw

    Jan 1, 2018

  • DFI
    Drilling And Dewatering In An Urban Environmentprivate - Project Description And Location

    By Joel Moskowitz

    In 1990, the United States General Services Administration (GSA) issued a contract for design and construction of a new federal court building in New York City. Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers (M

    Jan 1, 1996

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    Technical Visit

    By the courtesy of Metropolitana Milanese (Milan Underground), roost of the delegates visited on April 12, 1991 the tunnel of "PORTA VENEZIA" STATION of MILANO RAILWAY LINK. The "PORTA VENEZIA" ST

    Jan 1, 1994

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    Problems Of Cast In Situ Driven Piles Added To Existing Piles And Built Near A Standing Structure

    By L. F. Albert

    The paper describes solutions given to foundation problems during the reconstruction of a power plant set on fire, located adjacent to several still Working Units. After a detailed site and laboratory

    Jan 1, 1989

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    First Quality Tissue Plant, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania: A Case Study Of Drilled Displacement Dewaal Piles ? Introduction

    By Gordon King

    The site of the First Quality Tissue plant is located on a previous paper production facility in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. The new development, which included the construction of a tissue machine buil

    Jan 1, 2004

  • DFI
    Load Test Analysis On Augered Pressure Grouted Displacement Piles

    By Wei Zheng

    A pulverized coal fired power plant is being built in Osceola, Arkansas, along the Mississippi River. The subsurface soil conditions consist of a certain amount of very soft clayey silt and clay under

    Jan 1, 2007

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    Advances in Desaturation of Sandy Soil to Mitigate the Liquefaction Hazard

    By Dhanaji S. Chavan, Thallak G. Sitharam

    "It is well known that sites comprising of saturated loose sand undergoes large deformations, due to liquefaction, during seismic shaking. To cope with this, different mitigation techniques such as vi

    Jan 1, 2017