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The Settlements Of Buildings On Pile Foundations
By Mait Mets
In Estonia, the deformations monitoring of 1500 buildings are currently under investigation, buildings on pile foundations make up 10 per cent of these. In the following text we will be considering th
Jan 1, 2002
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Lateral Load Response Of Two Identical Bridge Column-Foundation Systems In Warm And Cold Conditions
By Muhannad T. Suleiman
Temperatures below freezing significantly enhance the soil shear strength and stiffness and to a lesser extent increase the compressive strength of concrete as well as the yield and ultimate strength
Jan 1, 2006
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Design Of Drilled Shafts Supporting Sound Walls
By Ke Yang
Drilled shafts are widely adopted as the foundation for sound walls. However, there has been a lack of uniformity in design and analysis methods and design criteria, in terms of factor of safety again
Jan 1, 2007
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Case History On Pipe Pile Installation - Presented At An Associated Pile & Fitting Corp. GEO-Pile Conference San Francisco, CA
By Jerry F. Parola
In current practice, pile foundation design is based on a general under-standing of pile-soil interaction during installation and superstructure-pile-soil interaction after construction. The pile desi
Jan 1, 1986
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Helical Pulldown? Micropiles Support Museum Celebrating The Bicentennial Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition
By Roy Jennings
The Discovery Expedition of St. Charles, MO chose to build its two-story museum in the flood plain of the Missouri River, near the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Should the lower le
Jan 1, 2003
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Design for Installation of Suction Piles in Sand Deposits for Mooring of Floating Offshore Structures
By Chul Soo Park, Juhyung Lee, Duhyun Baek
"In this study the preliminary design of suction pile as the supporting system of the concrete floating structures was performed at the offshore pilot project area in Korea. The suction pile of the fl
Jan 1, 2017
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Plastic Piling
By Magued G. Iskander
The deterioration of concrete, steel, and timber is a serious hindrance to construction in marine and corrosive environments. Composite materials such as fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) can offer perf
Jan 1, 2002
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An Innovative Foundation Technology For The Construction Of Retaining Walls In Urban Areas - Introduction
By F. Pagliacci
Retaining walls for the construction of underground urban infrastructures have to be executed considering the impact of a deep foundation job-site within an urban network. Traditional excavation syste
Jan 1, 2000
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Bearing Capacity Of Footings And Piles - A Delusion? - DFI Annual Meting, October 14-16,1999, Dearborn, Michigan - Summary
By Bengt H. Fellenius
The bearing capacity equation?"the triple N formula"? is now about 50 years old. It was developed from theory of plastic resistance of metal to a cone being pressed into the surface of the metal, supe
Jan 1, 1999
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2D and 3D Finite Element Analysis for Cantilever Slurry Walls in Cohesionless Soil
By Mostafa Mossaad, Ali Helwa, Manal Salem
Support of excavation (SOE) design practice tends to model SOE elements using two-dimensional (2D) analyses to avoid the complexity associated with three-dimensional (3D) analyses. Such practice overl
Jan 1, 2018
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An Overview Of Augered, Cast In Place Piles In Florida - Introduction
By Kirk A. Mcintosh
Augered, cast-in-place (ACIP) piles have been utilized in the United States for a wide range of projects since the 1950's. Due to the cast-in-place nature of the installation method (and lack of
Jan 1, 1997
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Mechanical Characterization of a Chemically Stabilized Soft Soil Reinforced with Fibers When Subjected to Tensile Solicitations
By J. M. N. P. C. Teles, Venda Oliveira P. J., Correia A. A. S.
"AbstractA laboratory work was performed to study the mechanical behavior of a Portuguese soft soil chemically stabilized with binders and reinforced with metallic fibers when subjected to tensile str
Jan 1, 2014
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Critical Evaluation of Indian Standard for the Design of Laterally Loaded Piles
By Sanket Rawat, Ravi Kant Mittal, Vikash Prasad
"The understanding of the response of pile foundations under various types of loads is a necessary prerequisite to analyze and design them properly. Therefore, this paper highlights and compares the p
Jan 1, 2017
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Anchored Pile Foundations In British Columbia
By Cory J. E. Yacyshyn
Anchored steel pipe piles are being used more frequently in British Columbia for shoreline projects such as public ferries, cruise ship docks, containership terminals and locally in the expansion of t
Jan 1, 2004
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Dynamic Monitoring Program Results Indicator Pile Tests -I-880 - Introduction
By D. Michael Holloway
The realignment of Interstate 880 replaces the double-decked (Cypress) viaduct collapsed in Oakland, California during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. The California Department of Transportation (CAL
Jan 1, 1996
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Advantages And Limitation Of Integrity Tests For Large Diameter Bored Piles In Bangkok Subsoil
By Narong Thasnanipan
In Bangkok due to the prevailing condition of subsoil (existence of considerably weak stratum at top part) deep-seated large diameter bored piles of over 50 m depth with 0.8 -1.8m in diameter have bee
Jan 1, 2004
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Lessons Learned From Installation Of ACIP Piles In Various Geologic Settings Of The NYC Region
By Frank J. Arland
Augered-Cast-in-Place piles have been used successfully for many deep foundation applications. The four case studies discussed herein describe ACIP pile projects where problems developed during ACIP p
Jan 1, 2004
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Real-Scale Tests on Soil Mix Elements
By Nicolas Denies, Gust Van Lysebetten, Bart Lameire, Jan Maertens, André Vervoort, Noël Huybrechts, Flor De Cock
"Abstract Originally developed for ground improvement works, the deep mixing method (DMM) has increasingly been applied in recent years for the realization of soil and water retaining structures and a
Jan 1, 2014
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CSM: An Innovative Solution For Mixed-In-Situ Retaining Walls, Cut-Off Walls And Soil Improvement
By Fabrice Mathieu
The Cutter Soil Mixing (CSM) provides a cost effective solution for the rapid construction of retaining and cut-off walls using new equipment developed from diaphragm wall cutter technology. CSM consi
Jan 1, 2006
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The Use Of A Reverse Circulation Diaphragm Walling Technique To Form A Plastic Cut-Off Wall Around Sizewell B Power Station
By H. F. Cowie
Britain's first pressurised water reactor (PWR) Nuclear Power Station is now under construction at Sizewell on the Suffolk coast. A linear cut-off wall was proposed to ensure that the drawdown of
Jan 1, 1989