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  • DFI
    Resonance Pile Driving with Zero Ground Vibration

    By Mark Johnson, Mathew Janes

    "The Resonator RD 260 Resonant Pile Driver delivers ground disturbance free, high production pile driving. The Resonator has recently been used on numerous production pile driving sites in the Netherl

    Jan 1, 1900

  • DFI
    Innovation In Spliced Prestressed Piles: Testing And Use Of The Emeca Pile Splice

    By John C. Ryan

    The Emeca Pile Splice, an innovative mechanical prestressed concrete pile splice, is the first robotically welded splice to be fabricated in the United States. An analytical and experimental study wa

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Pile Settlement Design Using Continuous Surface Wave Testing And Modulus Degradation

    By Hennie F. T. Barnard

    Where geotechnical designs are governed by settlement requirements, soil and rock moduli are important parameters for design. This paper reports on a method that was used to utilize dynamic modulus me

  • DFI
    Monotonic And Cyclic Lateral Full-Scale Testing Of Reinforced Helical Pulldown Micropiles

    By M. Meckkey El Sharnouby

    In this paper, the results of full-scale field testing of reinforced helical pulldown micropiles (RG-HSP) installed in clayey till soils and resting on sandy soils are presented. Piles were tested und

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Mixing Proportion Design and Construction Management for Application of Cement Deep Mixing Method to Construction Project on Controlled Final Landfill Site in Japan

    By Yoshinori Kurumada, Masaya Watanabe, Kenji Sasa

    "The Port of Yokohama is strengthening its international competitiveness as a strategic container port in order to respond appropriately to global exchange and shipping demands. Thus, the Minami Honmo

    Jan 1, 2015

  • DFI
    Dynamic Centrifuge Model Tests on Pile-Type Deep Mixing Method Reducing Lateral Flow of Liquefied Ground

    By Tsuda Wakaki, Naoki Takahashi, Natsuki Okuno, Hidenori Takahashi, Ikuo Towhata, Yoshiyuki Morikawa

    "Deep mixing (DM) method has been increasingly employed as a countermeasure against subsoil liquefaction in recent years. Pile-type DM, however, is considered to have little effect as a liquefaction c

    Jan 1, 2015

  • DFI
    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

  • DFI
    Piled Rafts In Geotechnical Practice - An International Perspective

    By Michael W. Neill, O&apos

    The performance of foundations that combine the high bearing capacity of rafts (mats) with the settlement reduction capability of piles is described through a summary of 24 case histories. Structures

    Jan 1, 2003

  • DFI
    Performance Of Toe-Grouted Large Bored Pile In Sand-Gravel Formation Of Chiang Mai City, Northern Thailand

    By Narong Thasnanipan

    Performance of diameter 1.5 m toe-grouted bored pile founded at depth 44 m in sand-gravel formation of Chiang Mai City is presented in this paper. Toe grouting was applied by using tube-a-manchette me

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    LRFD For Deep Foundations: Replacing The Traditional Factor Of Safety In Design

    By Lance A. Roberts

    The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has mandated the use of the AASHTO Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) specifications for all new federally-funded transportation infrastructure projects

    Jan 1, 2008

  • DFI
    The Micropile Network: Practice Precedes Theory

    By Gary M. Weinstein

    Micropiles have seen increasing use for foundation support and slope stabilization applications over the past half century. Most often designed and installed in groups of vertical or battered elements

    Jan 1, 2003

  • DFI
    Torque Correlation Factors For Round Shaft Helical Piles

    By Donald A. Deardorff

    The capacity of a helical pile can be determined analytically using the individual bearing or cylindrical shear methods which are dependent on soil strength parameters and helical bearing area. The t

    Jan 1, 2007

  • DFI
    Sheet Piling Bridge Abutments

    By Robert J. Carle

    This paper reviews a variety of highway structures which have been built using steel sheet piling as the permanent structural elements of bridge piers, abutments and wingwalls. Those structures built

    Jan 1, 1989

  • DFI
    Augered Cast-In-Place Pile Installation, Grand Forks, North Dakota

    By Kyle A. Kershaw

    The City of Grand Forks, North Dakota obtains drinking water from both the Red River and Red Lake River through a system of raw water intakes, shallow pipelines, and pump stations. However, during flo

    Jan 1, 2003

  • DFI
    Performance Of Drilled Displacement Piles In The Midwestern United States

    By W. Morgan NeSmith

    Drilled displacement (DD) piles often develop significantly larger unit shaft resistance values than other drilled or augered pile systems in coarse grained materials. Minimal vibration and limited sp

    Jan 1, 2009

  • DFI
    Use Of High Capacity Grouted Tension Piles Installed Vibration Free And Soil Displacing

    By Peter de Kort

    Tunnels in urban areas generally require deep excavations in soils under the groundwater table. In The Netherlands uplift loads are generally taken by piles installed into dense sand layers, which are

    Jan 1, 2008

  • DFI
    Underpinning System Based On Preloaded Micropiling For Construction Of Additional Underground Floors

    By Wolfram Groh

    New underground floors comprising the complete footprint area of the building structure, were constructed under an existing building in sand, located in the Verdun district of Beirut / Lebanon. The wo

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Using Seismic Tomography To Evaluate Foundation Structures

    By Ed Kase

    Cross-hole sonic logging (CSL) has become the universal standard, nondestructive testing (NDT) method used in evaluating the integrity of foundation structures to maintain quality assurance and qualit

    Jan 1, 2003

  • DFI
    Pile Settlement Design Using Continuous Surface Wave Testing and Modulus Degradation (9593f752-8bd1-4766-938c-27b4baad33f2)

    By Hennie F. T. Barnard, Theodore E. B. Vorster

    Where geotechnical designs are governed by settlement requirements, soil and rock moduli are important parameters for design. This paper reports on a method that was used to utilize dynamic modulus me

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    2017 OPA WINNER - Tri-Pod Suction Buckets for Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation

    By Tae Hwan Lee, Jun-Shin Lee, Daejin Kwag, Sangchul Bang, Gerard T. Houlahan, Moo Sung Ryu

    "Geotechnical engineers have been installing innovative, permanent underwater foundation systems utilizing suction buckets for the offshore industry since the early 1980s (Senpere and Auvergne, 1982).

    Jan 1, 2017