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  • DFI
    Ground Improvement Design and Construction for Seattle’s Elliott Bay Seawall Replacement and Retrofit

    By Andrew Malinak, William Perkins

    Seattle’s Elliott Bay Seawall protects the 1½ miles of downtown waterfront between South Washington and Broad streets. The seawall supports the urban waterfront and infrastructure, including the Alask

    Jan 1, 2018

  • DFI
    Design And Performance Evaluation Of Bored Piles In Sand

    By Ashutosh S. Dhar

    Cast-in-place piles were examined in this paper from the viewpoints of construction quality, axial capacity, and load-displacement responses. The results of ten 450 mm diameter (18? f) bored piles, in

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Non-Destructive Geophysical Evaluation Of Deep-Mixed Soil: A Computer Modeling Study

    By David A. Staab

    Numerical modeling was used to investigate the feasibility of using two geophysical imaging techniques, cross-borehole ground penetrating radar (XBGPR) tomography and electrical resistivity (ER) tomog

    Jan 1, 2004

  • DFI
    Jet Grouting As Soil Improvement In Southeast Florida

    By Evelio N. Horta

    The influence of soil improvement replacement area in foundation settlements is discussed for soil improvement methods used in Southeast Florida. A 3D Finite element analysis is used for two typical c

    Jan 1, 2007

  • DFI
    Steel And Concrete Piles Used In The Great Plains Of USA

    By Marius B. Wechsler

    A mathematical analysis is developed for the determination of the cases when HP-piles might be replaced by precast concrete piles. The analysis focuses especially on the "integral abutment-bridges" wh

    Jan 1, 1992

  • DFI
    Three-Dimensional Stability Analysis Of Vertical Shafts In Homogenous Soils

    By Reza Y. Khaksar

    Presented is a rigorous solution for the three-dimensional stability analysis of vertical shafts (excavations) subjected to the self-weight of the soil based on the upper-bound theorem of limit analys

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Lower Risks With ECR®/EFT®-Measurements In Underground Constructions

    By Patrick P. A. Wolfs

    In the summer of 2000, the ECR®/EFT® was first introduced in the Netherlands. After the first project a field test was performed together with other geophysical methods to prove the liability of these

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Sheetpile Wall System With Tiebacks In A Soft Clay Profile - Description - A. Alignment Description

    By Jean J. Abiassi

    The Boston Marine Industrial Park (BMIP) VENT 6 project is a cut and cover tunnel, part of the Central Artery / Tunnel (CA/T) in the city of Boston. The BMIP job will serve as the south approach t

    Jan 1, 1994

  • DFI
    Mission Valley Viaduct Piledriving - 1998 DFI Conference Seattle, Washington October 8, 1998

    By David A. Jack

    The Mission Valley Viaduct is located in San Diego, California. This structure is the intersection of Interstate 8 and 805. The project consists of the main viaduct, 8 connecting ramps, and one highwa

    Jan 1, 1998

  • 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
    Arbitration - The Tender Trap

    By James Green

    It has often been said that the best contracts written are by people who are suspicious of each other. The Spanish philosopher, Ortega y Gasset, said: "Every contract is an Act of Distrust." T

    Jan 1, 1987

  • DFI
    Mini-Pile Design And Construction Methods Change To Mitigate Soil Loss Through Glacial Till

    By Cassandra A. Wetzel

    Rock socketed mini-piles are a desirable foundation alternative when design capacity is more than 40 tons and there is limited access. In this case history mini-piles were designed to support between

  • DFI
    Pile Foundation - A Critical Study Of Some Design Aspects. - Synopsis

    By S. L. Karunakaran

    Selection of an appropriate foundation system requires great skill and ingenuity on the part of the designer. Certain guidelines for choosing between a pile and raft foundation are presented. A number

    Jan 1, 1996

  • 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

  • DFI
    Ultimate Pullout Capacity Of Batter Piles

    By M. R. Madhav

    The ultimate pullout capacity of single batter piles has been presented in literature in three contradictory trends. These trends are: the pullout capacity of a single batter pile increases, remain al

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Pile Integrity Testing In The Netherlands

    By Peter Middendorp

    Pile foundations are widely applied in the Netherlands because of the soft soil conditions. One of the popular pile types are cast-in-situ piles, which have to be integrity tested to get accepted. Int

    Jan 1, 2006

  • 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

  • DFI
    Harmonization and Status of Geotechnical Standards in Europe

    By Trevor L. L. Orr

    "AbstractThe background to the harmonization of geotechnical standards that has taken place in recent years in Europe has been the move to more economic and political integration following World War I

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Technical Note - Simplified Settlement Model For A Shallow Foundation On Composite Ground With Rigid Piles

    By Timothy C. Siegel

    A piled raft refers to a shallow foundation that is structurally connected to the piles, while composite ground refers to a soil-pile matrix where the piles are not structurally connected. The design

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Application Of The Dynamic Increasing Energy Test (DIET) In Load Transfer Analysis Of Precast Piles Driven In Soft Clay Formation

    By Jean Balech

    This paper presents some results of dynamic loading tests performed on concrete piles driven in soft clay formation. The load transfer mechanism, measured in the dynamic increasing energy test (DIET),

    Jan 1, 2002