We have been asked to determine the stability of the rock faces of an existing limestone / dolomite quarry. The owner is proposing a residential development inside of the quarry. (it has an open side to the river)
We did some initial structural mapping and discovered two major joint sets...
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I have a question, in my experience in the field of geotech engineering we always warn of the danger of settlements to adjacent buildings caused by local dewatering (deep excavation below the water table adjacent to existing buildings on standard spread and strip footings.)
I recently...
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I have a client that is proposing to build a hotel (7 stories, concrete construction, basement level at 2.5m). The hotel will be adjacent to a railway mainline, with the tracks approximately at the same level as the finished ground level of our building. The edge of the building will...
I have a site with 20 feet of very soft silty sands with thin interbedded clay layers (N values of 2 - 4), followed by a compact becoming dense to very dense silty sand with trace gravel. This strata extends to 100 feet where we stopped drilling, assuming we would go with a friction type pile...
I have an excavation extending 25 feet below the ground surface in compact to dense silts with trace sand. The GWT is located at approximately 15 feet. Excavation below the GWT as can be imagined is difficult, with the saturated soils very susceptable to remoulding with a minimal amount of...
