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  • DFI
    Suction Bucket Installation

    By Avi Shonberg

    With the advancement of offshore wind farm projects towards deeper waters and larger wind turbine generators, founda- tion solutions other than the monopile have received increasing attention over the

    Jul 1, 2022

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    Piling Practice in Sedimentary Granular Soils of Santa Cruz, Bolivia

    By Mario Terceros H, Bengt H. Fellenius

    "ABSTRACTThe city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, is historically dominated by houses and three to five storey buildings.The geology in and around the city is such that even very light buildings need to be su

    Jan 1, 2014

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    Helical Piles Performance In Golestan Loess Deposits Via Fullscale And Physical Modeling Testings

    By Abolfazl Eslami, Fatemeh Rostami, Sara Heidarie Golafzani, Mohammad Arabameri

    Collapsible loess is classified as problematic soil found in most continents. The loess immediately collapses under stresses induced by axial compressive loading or the soil weight when exposed to moi

    Oct 1, 2022

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    Axial Load Tests In Drilled Shafts And Piles In A Refinery: Comparison Between Design And Experimental Results

    By Walter I. Paniagua

    Drilled shafts and precast concrete piles were installed for the foundation of several structures in a reconfiguration project of a refinery in Minatitlan, Veracruz, in the Gulf of Mexico. The soils a

    Jan 1, 2007

  • DFI
    Piled-Raft Foundation (PRF) Optimization Design With Connected And Disconnected Piles

    By A. Eslami

    In recent development of piled raft design, the contribution of both raft and piles to tolerate the loads is taken into account, depending on the stiffness and contributions of involved elements i.e.;

    Jan 1, 2008

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    The Waterloo Barrier - A Sealable Joint Steel Sheet Piling For Groundwater Control And Remediation - Presented At The Deep Foundations Institute Annual Meeting & Conference Toronto, Ontario, October 15-17, 1997 - Summary

    By Murray Gamble

    A new type of groundwater cutoff wall has been developed at the University of Waterloo. The Waterloo Barrier? is a steel sheet piling system that incorporates a sealable cavity at each interlocking jo

    Jan 1, 1997

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    Mini-Pile Design and Construction Methods Change to Mitigate Soil Loss through Glacial Till (db8ff9fc-ef1a-44d4-9e2e-ad6c00fcf7e5)

    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

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Analysis of the Uncertainty by the Random Finite Elements Method of a Vertical Load Test of a Piled Raft Founded in Tropical Soil

    By Cristhian C. Mendoza, Renato da Cunha, Bernardo Caicedo, Max Barbosa

    "Abstract This paper shows that a raft alone is not sufficiently appropriate to address the uncertainty of underlying soil variability; therefore, a piled raft system is a better option for mitigating

    Jan 1, 2014

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    Disconnected Piled Raft Foundations Performance (DCPRF) With Cushion

    By Saeed Salehi Malekshah

    In hybrid foundation system or piled raft foundation (PRF), the raft has adequate bearing capacity and piles are usually required to ensure overall stability of foundation and also to act as settlemen

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Evaluation Of Achievable Column Diameter In Jet Grouting

    By Chu E. Ho

    Key variables that govern the jet cutting process are examined based on fundamental theories of jet hydrodynamics and soil mechanics. Under normal conditions of jet grouting operations, lift speed and

    Jan 1, 2006

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    Performance Of Cast-In-Place Piles Installed With A Fixed Mast Drilling Platform In Claystone ? Glenrock WY

    By Brent Wilkins

    The project team was tasked with the design and installation of a deep foundation system to support an expansion to a power generating station in Glenrock WY. Cast-in-place piles installed by a fixed

    Jan 1, 2009

  • DFI
    You Are Safer In Litigation - I. Prologue

    By Charles F. Seemann

    It is with considerable trepidation that I set out to defend "litigation" to Design Professionals (DPs), as a better method of resolving disputes than arbitration, in the light of my personal feeling

    Jan 1, 1988

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    High Capacity And Fully Removable Soil Anchors

    By Anthony D. Barley

    Over 60,000 multiple anchors have been used internationally since their introduction in the early 1990s, including 1000 in the United States. The multiple anchor system comprises a "multiple" of "unit

    Jan 1, 2002

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    Quality Control Of Augered Cast-In-Place And Displacement Piles ? Introduction

    By Rudolph P. Frizzi

    Quality control is essential for augered cast-in-place (ACIP) piles (also known as continuous flight auger (CFA) piles outside the United States) and augered displacement (AD) piles since the pile is

    Jan 1, 2002

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    Results Of An International Pile Load Testing Prediction Event

    By N. Charue

    An international prediction event was carried out within the framework of a 30-pile testing program organized in a sandy soil in Belgium (Limelette). That program called upon sev­eral testing methods:

    Jan 1, 2002

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    Ground Improvement for Reclaimed Landfills

    By Steven E. Darnell, William W. Haasz, Brandon T. Buschmeier, Frederic Masse

    "Landfills often cover expansive areas in locations where large building facilities or infrastructure is in high in demand after the land has been reclaimed. Most landfills have soil or fill propertie

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Innovative Use Of ACIP Piles And Geogrid To Support Kroger Superstore

    By George C. Webb

    A wide variety and variable depth (up to 40 ft.) of compressible, uncontrolled fill (including construction debris and a perched water condition) was present at a proposed Kroger construction site in

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Innovative Use Of ACIP Piles And Geogrid To Support Kroger Superstore (97785a40-c93d-4648-ae71-8e34822bf6ed)

    By George C. Webb

    A wide variety and variable depth (up to 40 ft.) of compressible, uncontrolled fill (including construction debris and a perched water condition) was present at a proposed Kroger construction site in

    Jan 1, 2003

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    Performance Specifications For Drilled Piles

    By Dan Brown

    Deep foundation contracting for transportation projects in the United States has typically followed the design-bid-build model in which contractors bid on a specific work product according to relative

    Jan 1, 2006

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    Effectiveness of Head-Enlarged CDM Columns in Evaluating Settlement of Improved Grounds

    By Y. M. Ha, T. D. Nguyen, D. T. Nguyen, H. K. Choi

    Conventionally, cement deep mixing (CDM) columns are designed to have constant diameters over the improved depth as this facilitates the construction procedures. However, this design pattern may be in

    Jan 1, 2019