Dynamic Stability of Statically Pre-Loaded Systems
Settling Down
Engineers in Florida will prepare the sandy foundation of a future power plant by preloading it with sand for as long as a year....
Rationalizing the Practice of Strut Preloading for Braced Excavations
Deterministic and Probabilistic Analyses of Preload Design at a Hydraulic Fill Site
Creep Deformation and Stress Relaxation in Preloaded/Prestressed Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls
Characterization of Structural Response for Systems with Loose Joints
Design for Underpinning the Central Artery
Modelng of Strength Degradation Due to Pre-Loading Effects in Brittle Solids
Preloading Organic Soils to Limit Future Settlements
This paper presents the authors' experience in preloading organic soils in south Florida to allow the construction of roadways, utilities, and low-rise residential structures on shallow...
Expert System for the Preloading Method of Ground Improvement
Design practice of the preloading method, which is one of the ground improvement techniques, applied for the hydraulic fill area includes quite complicated problems, especially when draining...
Site Improvement for a Steel Mill Complex
The Design of a Reclamation Scheme by Preloading
Sound Structure
A new concert hall in Dallas, Tex., has the first acoustical design done with the aid of computer simulations that also dictated the shape of the performance space. Those dictates, in...
Bottom Supported Terminal? Dravo Preload Concept
State-of-the-Art Report on Air-Supported Structures
A structure with a structural system which is dependent on pressurization, either positive or negative, is termed a pressure preloaded structure. Most pressure preloaded structures intended...
Foundation Soil Preload Saves $164,000
Soils in the lower Mississippi valley are highly compressible and present a challenge to structural foundation designers. Rather than support power plant structures on piles, one design...
Tunnel under Alps Uses New, Cost-Saving Lining Method
Contractors of the Tauerntunnel through the Alps, near Salzburg, Austria, encountered very bad geology�� heavily distorted, preloaded rock under an overburden up to 3,300 ft (1,000-m)...
Recording Rapid Settlement by the Oedometer
A Preload on Silty Fine Sand
Mat Foundation and Preload Fill, VA Hospital Tampa
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