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Design, Prediction And Performance Of Tied Back Shotcrete Walls Supporting Masonry Hospital StructuresBy Frank Borda
Two recent projects were completed in Ontario, Canada for major hospital additions that involved excavation support of heritage masonry structures. Conventional continuous caisson wall schemes were re
Jan 1, 2004
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Session 7: Grouting Compaction Grouting For Sinkhole Repair at WAC Bennett DamBy James Warner
Investigations of the sinkhole indicated that the loose, disturbed ground was completely encircled by dense competent core. This confinement substantially increased the effectiveness of the compaction
Feb 10, 2003
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Preliminary Assessment of Reliability and Sampling Requirements for Deep Mixing Method (DMM) Foundations for LNG Processing Facility and Storage Tank (52fd79c3-58e2-4970-9b21-5f8e12930105)By Paul Summers, Kevin Richardson, Willem (Billy) Villet, Paul J. Sabatini, Attasit Korchaiyapruk, Edward C. Clukey
"A deep mixing method (DMM) foundation was selected by the Project Team for a very large LNG facility in West Africa. As described in a companion paper, this foundation consists of a large number of c
Jan 1, 2017
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Effect of Electrokinetics on Pullout Resistance of Sheet Pile WallsBy Antonio Kodsy, Lutful Khan
A research was carried out to test the possibility of reducing the pullout resistance of metal sheet piles driven in clay soils using Electrokinetic (EK) conditioning. The hypothesis was applying an e
Jan 1, 2019
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Design and Quality Control of Soil Mix Walls for Earth and Water Retaining StructuresBy Nicolas Denies, Jeroen de Leeuw, Bart Lameire, Jan Maertens, André Vervoort, Flip Hoefsloot, Noël Huybrechts, Flor De Cock
"In recent years, the Deep Mixing Method has increasingly been applied for the construction of earth and water retaining structures. From practice, it has been experienced that there is a real need to
Jan 1, 2015
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Evolving Micropiles: Optimizing Foundations For Seismic RetrofitBy Rob Jameson
Micropiles are ideally suited to seismic retrofit applications. Their high tensile and compressive capacity can sustain the large concentrated loads induced during seismic events. Micropiles can be
Jan 1, 2008
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Design of the Lift-in Dam at Olmsted on the Ohio RiverBy Dale E. Berner
A new navigation dam at Olmsted on the Ohio River will be built "in-the-wet" using a lift-in construction method by the Washington Group/Alberici Joint Venture for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lo
May 11, 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
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Bearing And Friction Design Capacity Software For Helical Anchors And PilesBy Gary L. Seider
Chance, a Division of Hubbell Power Systems, Inc., in conjunction with Sailors Engineering, Inc. has updated its Helical Design Capacity Software. This latest version, ?HeliCAP® v2.0?, is a state-of-
Jan 1, 2007
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Real-Time Monitoring During Shaft Contruction For The Sound Transit Ulink I-5 UndercrossingBy Pierre Gouvin
This paper describes the design, installation and monitoring of a state of the art real time geotechnical/structural instrumentation monitoring system to facilitate tunnel construction under Interstat
Jan 1, 2010
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Atlantic Wharf: Redevelopment Of A Historic Site On Boston's WaterfrontBy Lee S. Vanzler
Atlantic Wharf involved the construction of a six-level underground parking garage and a 32-story high rise tower along the historic Boston Harbor waterfront. The site, historically known as ?Russia W
Jan 1, 2011
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A New Design Method For Drilled Shafts In Rock ? SynopsisBy Chris M. Haberfield
The design of side resistance of drilled shafts socketed into rock has traditionally been empirically based on the results of pile loading tests in which the side resistance can be isolated from the s
Jan 1, 1996
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Seven Mile Dam Retrofit - A Global ChallengeBy Arvindh Gupta
BC Hydro proposed to improve the stability of the existing Seven Mile Dam with 54 corrosion protected, re-stressable anchors comprising 92/0.6? strands each, in phase 2 of the program. Being globally
Jan 1, 2004
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Instrumented Static Load Testing-Auger Cast-In-Place Piles - Introduction And PurposeBy Michael T. Lambert
The purpose of the this paper is to demonstrate the benefits of using additional instrumentation during load tests of auger-cast-in-place piles. Traditionally, only load and butt displacement are dete
Jan 1, 2000
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Transverse Isotropy Effects On P-Y Curves For RockBy Ehab S. Shatnawi
It is common in practice to design laterally loaded rock-socketed drilled shafts using the p-y curve methods. However, the existing p-y curve criteria for rock were derived either semi-empirically or
Jan 1, 2007
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Deep Drilling at Mica Dam, British ColumbiaBy Douglas G. Baker, Jason K. Braund-Read, Megan R. Sheffer
"Mica Dam, owned by British Columbia Hydro, is an 820 ft high earthfill embankment dam that was completed in 1973. The dam consists of a thin central impervious till core supported by upstream and dow
Jan 1, 2017
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Installing And Testing Multi-bar High Capacity Rock TiedownsBy Andrew Pontecorvo, Steven Lowe, David Sposito
Buildings with large height-to-width ratios require foundations with significant uplift resistance. This paper presents a case study of the permanent rock tiedowns installed for One Manhattan West, a
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A Method For Predicting Load-Settlement Relationship And Bearing Capacity Of Single Piles By Means Of CPTBy Wang Huichang
A tentative mathod for predicting load-settlement relationship and bearing capacity of single piles based directly on the results measured by cone penetrometer with local friction sleeve is presented
Jan 1, 1991
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Field Testing of Energy Piles at Virginia Tech (eec8519c-b3f5-4281-8615-91be67ef6c77)By C. Guney Olgun, Charles Elks, Sherif L. Abdelaziz, James R. Martin, Christopher Fox, Pier Luigi Iovino, Fatih Catalbas, Pierre Gouvin
"Energy piles are a new innovative renewable energy technology to access and exploit the relative constant temperature of the ground for efficient heating and cooling of buildings. Examples of energy
Jan 1, 2017
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Sustainability and Consideration of the Re-Use of Foundations for the Hurricane Deck BridgeBy Timothy C. Siegel, Paul J. Axtell
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) recently replaced the Hurricane Deck Bridge that carries Highway 5 traffic across the Osage Arm of the Lake of the Ozarks in Camden County, Missouri.
Jan 1, 2017