...Shi Wang, MSc; Junjie Wang, PhD; Yuyan Chen, MSc; Yufang Zhang, PhD Expanded polystyrene (EPS) inclusions are placed between rigid anti-slip pile-free sections and slopes, causing soil displacement and transforming the lateral earth pressure from a static to an active state. This study proposes...

...Q. Zhang, BEng; Z. Zhang, MPhil, PhD; F. Yu, MPhil, PhD; J. Liu, MPhil In this study, well-instrumented field tests on bored piles were conducted at two construction sites in Zhejiang, China. At the first site, three bored piles in clay deposits overlying rock were load-tested to investigate...

... needed to design the retaining walls to ensure that the design programme could be achieved. 14 12 2004 26 04 2005 © 2006 Thomas Telford Ltd 2006 geotechnical engineering piles retaining walls Eurocodes were used for the design of a new metro, under a design and build...

...E FARRELL; B LEHANE; M LOOBY An instrumented driven pile in Dublin boulder clay E. Farrell, BA, BAI, MS, PhD, FIEI, MICE, FGS, B. Lehane, BE, DIC, PhD, MIEI and M. Looby, BA, BAI, MSc j Precast concrete piles, driven to a set in Dublin black boulder clay, have been used extensively in Dublin where...

... the effect of the means of speci®cation on the reported magnitude. There are many mechanized construction processes which are potential sources of intrusive levels of vibration, including piling, vibratory compaction, dynamic compaction and tunnelling. These have been the subject of studies by many authors...

...W H CRAIG © Thomas Telford and ICE 1998 MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONS SPUDCANS INSTALLATION DEEP PENETRATION REMOVAL EXPERIMENTS MODELS LOADING SIMULATION LOADS OFFSHORE JACK UP RIGS CENTRIFUGES MODELLING SITES SAND PRELOADING STATIC PILES CRAIG Spud-can...

...J PAPPIN; J RAMSEY; E BOOTH; Z LUBKOWSKI; DASYS © Thomas Telford and ICE 1998 OVE ARUP PILES SEISMIC RESPONSES DESIGN STUDIES SOILS SOFT DEFORMATION EARTHQUAKES STRUCTURES WAREHOUSES BRIDGES JETTIES METHODS ANALYSIS PILING MODELLING MATHEMATICAL MODELS SHEAR...

...D MUIR WOOD; D M WOOD; SECED; AFPS SOILS DEFORMATION PERMANENT EARTHQUAKES DESIGN STRUCTURES INTERACTION DYNAMIC SEISMIC FOUNDATIONS BRIDGES WALLS RETAINING PILES RESPONSES LIQUEFACTION PERFORMANCE GEOTECHNICS MATERIALS MODELLING MODELS SOIL PROPERTIES NUMERICAL...

...K SOGA © Thomas Telford and ICE 1998 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY EARTHQUAKES SOILS LIQUEFACTION EFFECT DAMAGE FILL MATERIALS GROUND SETTLEMENT PORTS QUAYS WALLS CONCRETE CAISSONS DISPLACEMENT PILES WAREHOUSES STRUCTURES FRACTURE MOVEMENT SUBSIDENCE SITES IMPROVEMENT...

...A K C SMITH; S C R LO; K S LI; T CAMERON The assessment of characteristic pile resistance in limit state design S.-C. R. Lo, K. S. Li and T. Cameron Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs Geotech. Engng, 1997, 125, Oct., 250±252 Paper 10833 A. K. C. Smith, Fugro Ltd The authors have demonstrated that it is dif®...

...P BROUGHTON; T R ALDRIDGE; N B NAGEL; DYNAFLOW; ABAQUS © Thomas Telford and ICE 1997 PHILLIPS PETROLEUM IMPERIAL COLLEGE FUGRO FOUNDATIONS DESIGN PLATFORMS EKOFISK SUBSIDENCE GEOTECHNICS STEEL PILED JACKETS FINITE ELEMENTS ANALYSIS CRUST MEASUREMENT MOVEMENT...

...M L LINGS © Thomas Telford and ICE 1997 BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PILES SAND SHAFTS RESISTANCE DRIVEN PREFORMED PREDICTION METHODS EMPIRICAL TENSION TESTS SHEAR STRESS SOILS PENETRATION DESIGN DISPLACEMENT RESIDUAL MODELS LOADS DENSITY FAILURES COMPRESSION EARTH...

...J N KAY Ultimate capacity of driven piles in sand Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs Geotech. Engng, 1997, 125, Apr., 65 70 J. N. Kay, PhD, FHKIE, FIEAust Paper 10951 Written discussion closes 16 June 1997 j An earlier proposal for the ultimate capacity of driven piles in sand by Fleming et al. is modi ed...

... and settlements of shallow and piled foundations, and the capacities of horizontally loaded piles and ground anchors. Pressuremeter test curves can be interpreted using a consistent framework to produce realistic values of in situ stress, stiffness and strength. Secant moduli and non-linear stiffness pro les...

... SpreadFoundations Chapter 7 Pile Foundations Chapter 8 Retaining Structures In the time available, it was onlypossible to discuss selected features of the code. Design principles The challenge set for the writers of EC7 was to produce a code whichcould be used with structural design codes withoutcompromising sound...

... by the in-situ soil with him about this concept when he served asa characteristics. The influence of residual loads consultant and advisor to a multi-million dollar on top of these factors, particularly for driven (US) research project of mine during the late piles, is just one further part of the explanation...

... angleandcohesion.Such a procedure, which requires strong prior knowledge (in the application of Bayesian statistics) or running a number of tests, may not be practical for determining characteristic pile resistance. The draft Geo-Guide 6 (1994) suggests the use of best-estimate value as the characteristic value...

...W G K FLEMING; R S OSBOURNE; R SMYTH OSBOURNE © Thomas Telford and ICE 1996 PILES PILING CFA CONTINUOUS FLIGHT AUGER MONITORING CONTROL TORQUE PENETRATION SOILS DISCUSSION The understanding of continuous Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs flight auger piling,its monitoring...

...V M TROUGHTON; M STOCKER; P A THOMPSON © Thomas Telford and ICE 1996 WESTPILE BAUER SPECIALTIEFBAU PILES BASES SHAFTS GROUTED GROUTING SAND LOADS BEARING CAPACITY DESIGN CAPACITY POSTGROUTING CANARY WHARF LONDON UK INFORMAL DISCUSSION Base and shaft grouted...

...D ROWBOTTOM; D THOMPSON; K JOHNSON; P G ALLEN; B G CLARKE; D WAITE; ISTRUCTE SHEETPILING PERMANENT STRUCTURES LAND STEEL PILING PRACTICE SHEETPILES WORKS DESIGN INSTALLATION METHODS CORROSION WALLS RETAINING PILES PROTECTION METAL RESISTIVITY SOILS OXYGEN 1994 DENNIS...