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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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