Planning, Design and Cost Estimates for RCC Dams
Engineers, planners, and officials of agencies responsible for developing water resource projects are confronted with preparing preliminary designs and cost estimates for dams. This paper...
Cedar Falls Roller Compacted Concrete Dam
This paper presents the design, material testing, quality control, and construction considerations applicable to a small Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) dam. The Cedar Falls RCC dam is...
Roller Compacted Concrete Design for Urugua-I Dam
Gravity dam construction by the roller compacted concrete method (RCC) has received widespread interest following completion of Shimajigawa Dam in Japan (1981) and Willow Creek Dam in...
Exploring Karst Terrain with Air Track Drilling
Pneumatic-powered track-mounted, percussion drills can be used to perform or augment geotechnical investigations in some karst settings. The air track drill is best suited to exploring...
Karstic Foundation Problems Sunny Point Railroad
Active limestone sinkholes have been causing problems and affecting the operation of the access railroad to the Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point, North Carolina (MOTSU) since 1962....
The MPSP System: A New Method of Grouting Difficult Rock Formations
In unstable rock masses the traditional stage grouting methods may prove impractical or ineffective. A recent innovation has been the Multiple Packer Sleeved Pipe (MPSP) System. Akin to...
Foundation Treatment of Karstic Features Under TVA Dams
TVA has constructed many of its dams on limestone foundations. Some of these foundations have been highly weathered and required special treatment not only to ensure strength but to develop...
Shallow Foundation on Sand Underlain by Soft Clay with Geotextile Interface
One technique for improving the load-bearing capacity of shallow foundations on soft clay soil is to construct them over a compact granular fill laid over the clay layer. However, the...
Design of Ash Basin Dike across Cove
Embankments built over soft, unstable foundation materials had required that the materials either be removed or reinforced. With the introduction of geotextiles, it is now economically...
Residential Damage in an Area of Underground Coal Mining
In order to estimate the potential for future subsidence-related residential damage, a statistical analysis of past residential damage in the Boulder-Weld, Colorado, coal field was performed....
Mechanisms of Subsidence Induced Damage and Techniques for Analysis
Structural damage due to mining induced subsidence is a function of the nature of the structure and its position on the subsidence profile. A point on the profile may be in the tensile...
Lateral Analysis of Drilled Piers Incorporating Soil Variability
In probabilistic studies, the mean or expected value of the parameter in question, along with its measured dispersion or standard deviation, are determined. In this study the Three Point...
Application of Bayesian Methods to a Geotechnical Site Investigation in Mississippi
In 1981, the Army Corps of Engineers constructed an ammunition storage area at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. This storage area is part of the Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant (MSAAP). Prior...
Reliability of Geotechnical Systems Considering Geological Anomaly
Anomaly statistics at a given site are first assessed through Bayesian methodology on the basis of site exploration data. Several methods may be then used to incorporate the anomaly uncertainties...
Computerized Bridge Coding for HEC-2 Applications on I.B.M. P.C.
A computer program for conversion of survey field notes directly into SB, BT, and GR cards with simultaneous cross-section plot is described. It was designed to simplify the coding of...
Swiss Cheese Box Girders
Now going up in the French Alps, the Sylans and Glacieres viaducts have decks supported by three-dimensional arrays of concrete trusses. The superstructures look like concrete box girders...
Steel Pipe Foundations for Deep Water
Four innovations are helping to make steel pipe piles more popular for foundations in deep water in Southeast Asia. Until recently steel was usually rejected for these applications, because...
Considerations in the Design and Installation of Horizontally Drilled Pipeline River Crossings
The authors will present a review of directionally controlled horizontal drilling techniques for pipeline installation by describing the state-of-the-art of the process vis-a-vis subsurface...
Monitoring of a Gas Main During Construction
This paper focuses on the task of formulating and implementing a viable plan for protecting an existing gas main located in a construction site where construction activities include excavation,...
Special Topics in Foundations
This book contains papers presented at a session related to various theoretical and experimental developments on foundation analysis, design and construction. The papers were written by...
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