This report provides information on the current practices used by state transportation agencies to develop pile driving criteria, with special attention paid to the use of test pile data in the process.

This case history describes the foundation design and construction for the New Mississippi River Bridge, presently under construction in St. Louis, Missouri. The 1,500 ft (457.2 m) main span of the cable-stayed bridge is supported by two delta tower pylons ...

Construction issues when using drilled shafts for bridge foundations

A new hyperbolic model for generating P-Y curves is developed for use in lateral analyses of cemented soils (a C-φ soil with both cohesive intercept and friction angle), and includes degradation of the static loading soil response to model the effects of load ...

The Massman - Traylor - Alberici team developed a redesigned foundation system for the main pylon and anchor foundations which utilizes their equipment and experience along with field load test measurements to optimize the foundations.

Construction issues when using drilled shafts for bridge foundations.

This manual embraces both construction and design of drilled shafts, and addresses the following topics: applications of drilled shafts for transportation structure foundations general requirements for subsurface investigations construction means and methods ...

The load test program for the Audubon Bridge project provides a comparison of the performance of base grouted and ungrouted shafts on large diameter foundations in sand. Comparison of several field load tests at the two pylon foundations indicate that the ...

Lateral load tests were performed on a full-scale pile cap in clay before and after construction of shallow soilcrete walls produced by soil mixing and jet grouting on either side of the pile cap. This relatively simple approach increased the lateral resistance ...

This paper describes the results of a detailed analysis of a loess deposit at the deep foundations test site established by the Kansas Department of Transportation. Multiple CPT, SPT, and pressuremeter tests were conducted as part of the investigation. This ...