Jet Grouting to Construct a Soilcrete Wall Using a Twin Stem System
An existing coal loading pier located in Norfolk, Virginia was completed in 1961 for the purpose of loading ocean going ships. It was determined that dredging adjacent to the pier would...
Settlement Characteristics from Insitu Tests in Flyash Structural Fills
Flyash from the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company's plants was used to construct structural fills in thickness ranging from 5 to 25 feet (1.5m to 7.6m). Several warehouses...
Ground Modification for a 14-Story Structure Over a Deep Peat Deposit
The foundation design and construction for a 14-story reinforced concrete office building northwest of Minneapolis is described. The building's geometry provided unusual foundation...
Model Tests for Bearing Capacity of Vertically Reinforced Foundations in Sand
Laboratory model test results for the bearing capacity of strip foundation supported by a sand layer with semi-flexible vertical rod reinforcements have been presented. All test results...
Tangent Modulus of Piles Determined from Strain Data
When evaluating measurements of strain or telltale shortening of a pile subjected to loading test, precise knowledge of the 'elastic' modulus is necessary. By means of plotting and analyzing...
Load Transfer in Deep Foundations Under Repeated Axial Loading
An analysis is presented of changes in axial load transfer for deep foundations under repeated loading, compared with static uplift and compression loading. Existing load test data demonstrate...
On the Critical Relative Displacement of Pile Shaft and Surrounding Soil
Model pile pull-out tests have been conducted to investigate the characteristics of the critical relative displacement at which the critical pile skin resistance is mobilized. Test results...
The Influence of Cyclic Loading on the Lateral Load Response of Groups of Piles
The effects of cyclic loading on the lateral response of closely spaced groups of piles has been widely considered to be a single pile phenomenon, related to gapping and scour around the...
Numerical Modeling of Interface Behavior for Drilled Shaft Foundations Under Generalized Loading
To evaluate soil-foundation interaction numerically, an isoparametric thin layer element is used within a 3-D, material nonlinear, general purpose geotechnical analysis system developed...
Ultimate Capacity of Deep Foundation by a Rigid-Plastic Analysis
This paper is concerned with the determination of the axial ultimate capacity of a rigid pier on the basis of the theory of perfect plasticity. As an application of the upper bound theorem...
Settlement of Single Piles
This paper presents an application of a recently developed approach for computing the tip settlement of axially loaded single piles driven into compressible layered soil system. In this...
Numerical Analysis of Vertically Loaded Pile Groups
An approach is presented for the analysis of linear and nonlinear response of vertically loaded pile groups. The piles are modeled with finite elements, the pile-soil influence through...
Transient Dynamic Response Analysis of Embedded Rigid Foundations
A simplified approach for the transient dynamic response analysis of embedded multiple rigid foundations is presented. The approach is based on approximate time-domain formulations of...
Subgrade Model for Static and Dynamic Response Analysis of Surface Foundations
A new subgrade model is presented for the static and dynamic response analysis of surface foundations. The model consists of a number of horizontal layer model units. Each model unit is...
Foundation Studied for Turbine-Generator on Liquefiable Soils
Turbine-generator foundations are generally constructed of concrete in the U.S.A. This paper deals with the dimensioning and evaluation of a turbine foundation in Oxnard, California. The...
Ground Failure Damage to Buildings During Earthquakes
Several case histories are examined to evaluate building damage as a function of the foundation type and type and amount of ground displacement. Extensional or vertical ground displacements...
Simplified Seismic Analysis of Pile Foundations
The determination of displacement of the pile cap and displacements and forces of individual piles is essential to the design of pile foundation subject to both static and/or dynamic loading....
Seismic Response Considerations in Foundation Design
There are no generally accepted procedures to determine the potential magnitude of reduction of footing bearing capacity that may result from soil strains or pore pressure changes during...
Risk Correction Factors for Bearing Capacity Analysis
In this paper bearing capacity correction factors are developed to account for the randomness in the load and soil properties. These are applied to the bearing capacity equation in the...
Human Factors and Communication Problems in Foundation Engineering
Recent findings in non-engineering fields related to human factors are reviewed with emphasis on communication difficulties. Foundation engineering tasks are discussed in the context of...
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