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  • DFI
    Dynamic Monitoring And Analysis Of Pile Foundation Installations ? Introduction

    By Patrick J. Hannigan

    The pile foundation designer typically performs a subsurface exploration program and static pile capacity calculations before selecting a pile foundation type, length, and capacity. During constructio

    Jan 1, 1990

  • DFI
    Design And Construction Of The Sutong Bridge Foundations

    By Robert B. Bittner

    The Sutong Bridge across the lower Yangtze River in China will have, when completed, the longest span (1,088 m) and the highest towers (306 m) of any cable stayed span in the world. The foundations fo

    Jan 1, 2005

  • DFI
    Quality Control Of Augered Cast-In-Place And Displacement Piles ? Introduction

    By Rudolph P. Frizzi

    Quality control is essential for augered cast-in-place (ACIP) piles (also known as continuous flight auger (CFA) piles outside the United States) and augered displacement (AD) piles since the pile is

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    A Novel Approach To The Performance Evaluation Of Driven Prestressed Concrete Piles And Bored Cast-In-Place Piles

    By Sridhar Krishnan

    This paper presents the results of a comprehensive pre-production pile testing programme for the US$ 800 million 1400MW Coal-Fired Jimah Power Plant Project in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The testing p

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Load Testing High Capacity Drilled Shafts - Summary

    By Jorj O. Osterberg

    Until ten years ago, the largest load tests on drilled shafts (bored piles) were about 3,000 tons (27MN). These tests were made with kentledge (large weights, usually concrete blocks) stacked up as a

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Driven Pile Foundation Design And Construction Genentech Hall - UCSF Mission Bay Campus

    By Robert E. Fosse

    Driven 14-inch-square concrete piles were used as the foundations of Genentech Hall at the new University of California, San Francisco Mission Bay Campus. The five-story, steel eccentrically-braced fr

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Thermal Integrity Profiling Of Drilled Shafts

    By Gray Mullins

    The construction of drilled shafts as well as other cast in place foundation alternatives relies heavily on good practices from the contractor, engineer, and inspector in order to produce a quality fo

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    EFFC-DFI Geotechnical Carbon Calculator Project

    By Vincent Joannes, Marine Lasne, Luca Brenelli, Colin Serridge, Inge van Baardwijk, Martin Stanley, Anthony Fisher, Mary Ellen Bruce, Tony Suckling, Pedro Avellanosa

    "Abstract The European Federation of Foundation Contractors (EFFC) and Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) developed a sector-specific carbon accounting methodology and associated “carbon calculator” for

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Analysis Of The Settlement Of A Single Axially Loaded Soil-Cement Pile

    By Jiwei Duan

    The deformation and load transfer behavior of a single soil-cement column are studied with the finite element method. The results show that there is an effective length for a soil-cement column. Beyon

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Combined Loading Tests On Large Diameter Piles

    By A. Lyndon

    Combined loading tests are described to three 1.2m diameter cast-in-place bored piles, 12m long, formed through cohesionless material into stiff sandy clay. The maximum loading conditions imposed at t

    Jan 1, 1989

  • DFI
    Bearing Capacity Of Pile By Curve-Fitting Method ? Synopsis

    By Z. Q. Zhou

    It is the first worke in design of pile foundation to determine the carring capacity of single pile, and a static loading on site is considered to be the lost derect and reliable way. All values P and

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Centrifuge Modeling of Temperature Effects on the Pullout Capacity of Energy Piles in Clay

    By John S. McCartney, Ismaail Ghaaowd

    This study presents the results from centrifuge modeling experiments performed to understand the effects of temperature changes on the pullout capacity of scale-model energy piles embedded in normally

    Jan 1, 2018

  • DFI
    Fundamental Tests On The Performance Of High Capacity Pin PilesSM

    By Donald A. Bruce

    Pin Piles are small diameter, bored, cast-in-place piles used to underpin structures. They were first employed over 40 years ago in Italy, and have been used in the U.S. since the late 1970's. Ho

    Jan 1, 1993

  • DFI
    Long Term Behavior Of Piles - Presented At An ASCE-Penn DOT Seminar Innovations In Geotechnical Engineering - Harrisburg, PA, April 1985

    By Donald J. Murphy

    Longevity of structural units, as compared to the planned useful life of a facility, always is a design consideration. Typical concerns include slow decay due to environmental factors, and changes in

    Jan 1, 1986

  • DFI
    Inaccurate Interpretation Of Offshore Geotechnical Site Investigation Results And Risk Associated - A Case Study Of Conductors Collapse In Driving

    By Hodjat] [Shiri

    A 4-legged jacket structure was installed by an Offshore Installation Contractor (OIC) in the Persian Gulf. In addition to four open-end pipe piles, six conductors were installed by OIC. During the in

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Case Studies Of Driven Tubular Steel Piles In Soils And Basalt On Woolgoolga To Ballina Pacific Highway Upgrade

    By Henry Zhang

    This paper presents two case studies of large diameter driven tubular steel piles for the ongoing Woolgoolga to Ballina Pacific Highway upgrade (W2B). This project forms part of Australia’s largest re

    Nov 1, 2022

  • DFI
    Untangling The Octopus" Bored-In Pile Construction - On Nysdot Project D256424 Ithaca, New York - Executive Summary - Bored-In Pile Construction

    By Andrew L. Peterson

    CATOH Inc. of Weedsport, New York recently completed a very challenging Bored-In Pile project which features unique construction techniques in the installation and load testing of 45 and 100 ton capac

    Jan 1, 1997

  • DFI
    Foundations In The Urban Environment The Need For Unique Installation Methods - Introduction

    By James J. Cahill

    Contractor's working in an urban environment face a multitude of working conditions. There is no typical "Downtown" job site. From afar we just see the skyline, or up close a specific building. T

    Jan 1, 1991

  • DFI
    Augered Cast-in-Place Pile Manual, Second Edition, 2003

    The development of Augered Cast-In-Place (ACIP) piles started in the late 1940's when several projects were performed by Intrusion-Prepakt, Inc. utilizing various techniques to place the piling.

    Jan 1, 2003

  • DFI
    Design And Construction Considerations For The Use Of Slurry Walls To Construct Water Reservoirs In The Denver Formation

    By Ken Andromalos

    Continued population growth combined with limited water resources in the Denver area has resulted in the conversion of a number of mined out gravel pits in the area into municipal water storage facili

    Jan 1, 2007