The paper presents the findings to reaffirm the principle that design of a piled foundation requires the analysis of the interaction between load transfer, soil settlement and pile toe load movement response.

This paper presents the results of an elastoplastic finite element back analysis of an excavation made on a saturated soft organic clay deposit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The excavation was conducted as part of an urbanization program, in which artificial ...

<p>Current safety requirements for both construction and operation of tunnels demand reliable monitoring and data processing methods. The conventional techniques of convergence measurements are characterized by intermittent recordings, frequently interrupting ...