alternatives being considered for an earth retention cutoff wall adjacent to a water supply reservoir include both secant pile walls and bentonite slurry walls. the ground conditions are residual soils and weathered to decomposed rock occasionally hard solid rock in very irregular profiles. we...
can anyone advise me on the best procedure to take the results from LPILE or COM624 and convert it to soil pressures that could be transmitted to a mechanically stabilized earth wall?
does anyone have any information on how to convert the energy rating (given by hoe ram manufacturers in foot-lbs) to a force (lbs)? we are trying to evaluate the impact to a mini-pile which is embedded in rock during excavation.
has anyone run across a good case history describing the problems with the sensitive manhattan silt? stories i've always heard is that the sandhogs would lean up against it in a tunnel and it would liquefy. but i've never seen much published about it.
tall building designs are increasing the use of shear walls which are analyzed for overturning and sliding on rock. where the safety factor of overturning moment divided by stabilizing moment is less than 1.5, additional consideration is required by building codes. rock anchors are an...
