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  • DFI
    Design & Installation of Offshore Driven Piles – A Gulf of Thailand Regional Perspective

    By Kaushik Mukherjee

    "Malaysian offshore and surrounding region are favorable to the installation of driven piles. During the design phase, pile driveability analysis plays a major role in pile make-up design to suit and

    Jan 1, 2015

  • DFI
    Wadi Dayqah Dam Curtain

    By Frank Haehnig, Harald Krenn, Harm-Christoph Claassen

    "The Wadi Dayqah Dam Water Supply Scheme represents one of the most important projects implemented by the Sultanate of Oman to ensure sustainability of water resources. The principal components of the

    Jan 1, 2016

  • DFI
    Deep Foundations: Study on Effect of Drilling Fluids on Concrete Integrity

    By Alberto Carmona Rosell, Sri Ram Ramankutty

    "The installation of Bored Piles and Diaphragm Wall under slurry using tremie raises quality concerns on the integrity of concrete. It is vital to understand the effects on concrete integrity during c

    Jan 1, 2015

  • DFI
    A Full-Scale Test by Low-Improvement-Rate Soil in Combination with Crushed-Stone Mat on Peaty Ground

    By H. Hayashi, M. Yamaki, H. Hashimoto, T. Yamanashi

    "In an experiment on a trial embankment, the deformation mode of the improved ground at the toe of the embankment was compared with the deformation mode of the unimproved ground. This comparison showe

    Jan 1, 2015

  • DFI
    Effects Of Confining Stress During Curing And Shearing On Shear Strength Of Lime-Cement Improved Clays

    By Ingrid Engeset, Solve Hov, Arnfinn Endal, Per-Anders Mortensen, Priscilla Paniagua, Bjørn Kristian Fiskvik Bache

    During the last decades, it has become common practice in the Nordic countries to use dry deep mixing in soft clays with lime and cement in for example deep excavation pits in soft clay, or as a reinf

    May 1, 2022

  • DFI
    Underwater Sound Attenuation In Construction Projects: Applying Science To Pile Driving Permits

    By Alan Christopherson

    Nearshore construction projects often require installation of steel piles and specific methodologies of installing piles may adversely affect nearby species of concern. Water is an uncompressible med

    Jan 1, 2013

  • DFI
    Risk Management and Ground Improvement Technologies in the Case of Liquefaction

    By Sebastian Fischer, Rolf Katzenbach, Steffen Leppla

    "The risk management in the case of liquefaction is one of the most serious and also difficult issues in geotechnical engineering because failure caused by liquefaction is always a sudden failure with

    Jan 1, 2015

  • DFI
    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

  • DFI
    Innovations In Diaphragm-Wall Construction Plant

    By Maurice Guillaud

    The most striking innovations on diaphragm-wall construction plant are those associated with continuous real-time trajectory monitoring of the excavating tool (either a grab or a hydro-cutter). Th

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Stone Columns Through Construction Demolition Debris Fill

    By Lok M. Sharma

    Development of brownfields is of great interest in these days. Such fields are not easily adaptable for foundations of structures. The uncertainties in ground behavior present challenges of unpredic

    Jan 1, 2009

  • DFI
    The Underwater Cut-Off At The Walter F. George Dam

    By Gianfranco Di Cicco

    Seepage problems were recorded for more then 40 years at the Walter F. George lock and dam. In 2001 the Mobile district of The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers turned to the installation of a 200 feet dee

    Jan 1, 2013

  • DFI
    Material Behavior And Ground Improvement ? Synopsis

    By J. K. Mitchell

    Soil improvement is examined within the context of the characteristics of different soil types, the types of ground improvement techniques that can be used to improve them, and the level of improvemen

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Session 12 "Deep Mixing Method II"

    By Helen Ahnberg

    The scope of the present paper is limited to report the experimental evidence and not for describing the analytical assumptions. However, the idea behind the experimental program is that the deteriora

    Feb 10, 2003

  • DFI
    Session 11 Jet Grouting II

    By George Burke

    Of the three projects, particularly the extensive Nimitz II (downtown) project, a single system, which was part of the operation, was used to control the spoil. Spoil control was continuous with the w

    Feb 10, 2003

  • DFI
    Design And Construction Of Open Cell Sheet Pile® Abutments Under An Existing Bridge

    By Dempsey S. Thieman

    The Kuparuk River Central Channel Bridge on the North Slope of Alaska provides critical access for oilfield service vehicles in the largest oilfield in the United States. The original sloped spill-th

    Jan 1, 2008

  • DFI
    Vertical Load Carrying Capacity Of Concrete Expanded Base Piles

    By Mustapha Zergoun

    This paper presents the results of load tests to assess the vertical load carrying capacity of concrete expanded base piles, or pressure injected footings, for various projects located near Vancouver,

    Jan 1, 2004

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    Mobilisation Of Skin Friction In Bored Piles In Hong Kong ? Introduction

    By R. A. Fraser

    Large diameter (1.0 to 2.5m) bored piles have been widely used to support buildings and elevated roadways in Hong Kong. Most of these piles are founded on a hard bearing stratum such as granitic or vo

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Pile-Supported Raft Foundation System

    By Emre Biringen

    Over the past decades, there has been an increasing recognition of the strategic use of pile-supported rafts in design of heavily-loaded structures to reduce total and differential settlements. Howeve

  • DFI
    The Monroe St. Viaduct: A Case History Of MSE Vibro-Concrete Column Supported Embankment

    By Paul J. Lewis

    Replacement of the Monroe Street Viaduct in southwest Baltimore City, Maryland included transforming 240 feet of the south approach from a pile-supported multi-span bridge to a mechanically stabilized

    Jan 1, 2007

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    Corroboration and Remediation Options

    "After the non-destructive testing is completed, the data must be compiled, evaluated, and interpreted. During this process, the data may indicate that there is an anomaly warranting further investiga

    Jan 1, 2004