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<p>A set of review checklists and technical guidelines has been developed to aid engineers in their review of projects containing major and unusual geotechnical features. These features may involve any earthwork or foundation related activities such as construction ...
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Management & Scheduling -
Checking
Reference:
Federal Highway Administration, FHWA-ED-88-053, 2003
Dumas C.
,
Mansukhani S.
et al.
<p>The scan team identified and evaluated 30 technologies and 15 processes with the potential for accelerating construction in the areas of bridge foundation systems, equipment, and ground improvement methods embankment deep foundation systems, equipment, ...
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Soil Mechanics -
Soil Improvement
Reference:
Federal Highway Administration, FHWA-PL-03-014, 2003
The bearing capacity and settlement behavior of large diameter above ground petroleum storage tanks are critical in loose and soft soils. Deep mixing ground improvement program successfully limited settlement of the tanks exceeded predicted values.
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Soil Mechanics -
Soil Improvement
Reference:
Geodenver 2000, Colorado, 2000
<p>This paper reports the response of circular foundations on very dense sand within the context of plasticity theory. The load and displacement paths are applied using a sophisticated three degree-of-freedom loading rig, designed specifically to explore plasticity ...
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Soil Mechanics -
Soil Behavior & Testing
Reference:
"1999 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, 3-6 May 1999."
This paper presents the ground improvement by the use of shallow soil mixing for large effluent storage tanks foundations.
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Soil Mechanics -
Soil Improvement
Reference:
ASCE Geotechnical Division Specialty Conference, Grouting, Soil Improvement and Geosynthetics, Louisiana, 1992
This paper presents a case history of a bridge foundation in Canada that value engineering was not followed by the public sector.
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Soil Mechanics -
Deep Foundations
Reference:
Geotechnical News, Vol.8 No.4 pp. 32-36
Soil mixing for in situ stabilization of contaminated soils offers a methodology which allows soils to be treated above and below the water table without removal. Two methods of soil mixing are presented in this paper, the shallow and deep soil mixing.
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Soil Mechanics -
Soil Improvement
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