Man-made island
Man-made island
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Does anyone know any website that talk about geotechnical aspects of constructing man made islands?
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RE: Man-made island
RE: Man-made island
RE: Man-made island
and "The World" http://
are two examples.
www.SlideRuleEra.net
RE: Man-made island
Incredible projects which involve man made islands in the overall shape of the earth's continents and of palms.
I recently saw a TV service on it, absolutely awesome!
Presently, Dubai's real estate industry is booming, lots of investments switched from Hong Kong and elsewhere to there.
Also I would like to remind Hong-Kong airport in on a man-made island, as well as another similar project in Japan, and the idea is spreading (makes sense to create new estate on water).
RE: Man-made island
Issues include settlements due to the marine sediments that the placed material sits upon. The documentary about the airport indicated that the columns for the terminal structure were designed to be individually jacked up at the base in order to prevent distress due to differential settlements. Computers were used to monitor elevations at various points around the foundations so as to provide an indication of which columns needed jacking and how much.
Jeff
Jeffrey T. Donville, PE
TTL Associates, Inc.
www.ttlassoc.com
RE: Man-made island
Port of Kobi (offshore Kobi) is a small city, and the Osaka airport is on another man-made island in the same bay.
DISCOVERY Channel, I believe, has at least one documentary dedicated to the Osaka airport (the parts I recall were well done and interesting).
RE: Man-made island
I was involved with one about 1km of the coast in the Clyde Estuary in Scotland It was in about 20 m of water.
It was basically dredged sand in a pile delivered by suction dreger and a 18' pipeline, a geotextile layer on the outside and some rock armouring, rocks were about 2 to 3 ft size.On more exposed locations the external rocks get larger I think up to about 5 tons each if I remember. The outer layers with progressively smaller rocks in layers below and of course geotectiles to prevent washout of fines.
The island in Scotland was a temporary facility to build oil platforms.I do not know how long it lasted or if its still there.
Prepakt Honk kong and Gammon International did the original site investigation for the Honk Kong airport so I am sure we still have some files somewhere.
Intrusion Prepakt
www.marineconcrete.com
RE: Man-made island
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