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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

  • DFI
    Deep Bored Piling in Soft Soil and High Lateral Loads

    By W. Sondermann

    "AbstractThe construction of a distribution centre of minerals for a global mining and resources cooperation demanded the control of deformations and displacement of the stack reclaimer facilities on

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Soil-Cement Pile Foundations For A Large Storage Tank And Retaining Wall - Case History - Summary

    By Roy A. Bell

    A 200-foot diameter, 72-foot high petroleum storage tank was built in a hillside ravine where a portion of the site contained soft clay fill. Soil-cement piles, 40 inches in diameter and up to 38 feet

    Jan 1, 1997

  • DFI
    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

  • 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
    Overview Of Design Methods Of Axially Loaded Piles In Europe

    By Flor De Cock

    The paper reflects part of the work from the European Regional Technical Committee on Piles (ERTC3) during its mandate between 1994 and 1999, and, in particular, describes the find­ings from an Intern

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    The Deep Soil Mixing for the Galataport Project in Istanbul, Turkey.

    By Federico Pagliacci, Marco Chiarabelli, Salvatore Miranda

    The paper describes the adopted technologies and performance controls related to a special geotechnical engineering solution provided within the scope of the Galataport Project, in Istanbul, Turkey. T

    Jan 1, 2018

  • DFI
    Deep Mix-In-Place Soil/Cement Stabilisation Using Hollow Stem Augers For Excavation At Elland, West Yorkshire

    By J. A. Elliot

    Deep Mix-in-Place soil stabilisation is achieved by forming columns of soil/cement arranged to overlap by secant intersection. Alternate columns are constructed initially and infilled. The cementitiou

    Jan 1, 1989

  • DFI
    Foundation Retrofit Design and Construction for the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, Martinez, California - 1998 DFI Annual Conference October 7th-9th, 1998 Seattle, Washington

    By Roy A. Imbsen

    Following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) expedited an effort to evaluate and retrofit important state-owned toll bridges to en­hance performance of

    Jan 1, 1998

  • DFI
    Ultimate Skin Friction Of Single Batter Piles In Sand ? Synopsis

    By A. M. Hanna

    This paper presents the experimental investigation on the ultimate skin friction of batter piles. The model piles were pushed in medium dense sand deposits at different inclinations up to 30 with resp

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Session II - Industry Trends And Up And Coming Innovations - Reflections On Our Industry - Foundation Vs Geotechnical

    By Arturo Ressi di Cervia

    From the times when men in lacustrine environments drove wooden piles into the mud to elevate their dwellings, until the beginning of the twentieth century builders reacted to the conditions found in

    Jan 1, 2000

  • DFI
    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

  • DFI
    A Case Study Of Passive Piles Failure In Open Excavation

    By S. T. Kok

    This paper presents a case study in West Malaysia for passive piles failure in very soft marine clay in open excavation. In this particular case, the thickness of the very soft marine clay ranges from

    Jan 1, 2009

  • DFI
    Shoring And Caissons At The Air Canada Centre/Raptors Stadium

    By Dawn C. Tattle

    [ ] Panoramic View of Completed Facade Supports The following case history describes the installation of earth retention systems, historical facade supports and structural caissons by Anchor Shor

    Jan 1, 1997

  • DFI
    A Numerical Study On Behavior Characteristics Of Steel-Concrete Composite Drilled Shafts

    By Hyu-Soung Shin

    This study is concerned with the characteristics of the behavior of steel-concrete composite drilled shafts, a material that is used for large bridge foundations, and especially for weak submerged gro

    Jan 1, 2007

  • DFI
    Deterministic Analysis for Liquefaction and its Mitigation by Suitable Foundation Type in Bangladesh

    By Arpit Parikh

    "Ground Water or Pore water pressure development in Sandy Soil formation is Critical situation in foundation analysis and design.Moreover it become severe while associated with higher liquefaction pro

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Positive Cut-Off Wall in Indian Dam – A New Technique for Difficult Geology

    By Steni Stefani, Sanjay Dave

    "This paper describes an innovative method, used for the first time in India, for the construction of a 1.0metre-thick positive plastic concrete cut-off wall (CoW) at the upstream toe of the dam at th

    Jan 1, 2017

  • 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
    Methods Of Constructing Concrete Piles On Heavily Contaminated Sites

    By N. C. Matheson

    The West's Shell Pile has been used on sites with very soft ground conditions for over 60 years. Fibre reinforced precast concrete shells 900mm long are threadled onto an internal mandrel which c

    Jan 1, 1989

  • DFI
    I-880 Replacement Project (Cypress Freeway) Large Diameter Driven Pipe Pile Foundations Test Program And Construction Test Pile Program - Indicator Pile Test Program - Field Work

    By Darrell L. Beddard

    Pile driving started October 29, 1993 and was completed on January 27, 1994. Field work included driving piling from ground surface at one site and at or near proposed footing elevations for the remai

    Jan 1, 1996