pile Groups under Lateral Loads, by FHWA 3

[jiligeo]

Hi,
Does anyone know where I can obtain a copy of "Behavior of Piles and Pile Groups under Lateral Loads ", by FHWA?

Regards
Jili

 

[FM1]

You can access quite a few FHWA publications through their web site. Since I can never remember the link, I always put a search on " FHWA bridge technology office" and the link comes up. Once in their site, follow the links to Geotecnical ---> Publications.
i think i remember seeing that document or one that had a similar name.

Good luck

FM

 

[SlideRuleEra]

Publications available at the FHWA website seem to go back only to 1990. The one that your are looking for, by Dr. L. C. Reeese, is dated 1985. The DOT Library seems to be the only place that has it, in printed form. Here is a link

http://207.67.203.66/D10090Staff/OP...RD-85/106&GoPressed=true&IsFirstDisplay=false

Depending on your exact need, perhaps you could consider using an alternate source - the US Army "Design of Deep Foundations". Parts of Chapter 4 (Piling Lateral Loads) are taken, with permission, for Dr. Reese's work. Here it's link

http://www.hnd.usace.army.mil/techinfo/UFC/UFC3-220-01A/818-02.PDF

http://www.SlideRuleEra.net

 

[jdonville]

jiligeo,

This publication is available for order from NTIS. I ordered a copy recently myself. The total charge came to about $90 US for a paper copy. Electronic versions of this are, I believe, unavailable, even from NTIS.

If you do want to order a copy, you will need to cite the NTIS publication number (PB86-238466) either by email or telephone to the NTIS order department. As the publication is pre-1990, it is not in their database of publications and not orderable using their online system.

Jeff


Jeffrey T. Donville, PE
TTL Associates, Inc.

http://www.ttlassoc.com

 

[dmoler]

Much of that is in the COMP624 manual in Part II - Background. This can be downloaded from the FHWA website mentioned above.

 

[FM1]

Re: USACE 818-02

SlideRuleEra

Is there something wrong with the way they have scaned the document? The "equal " sign and some other caracters dont show up properly.

Thanks
FM

 

[BigH]

FM1 - this is likely that they scanned in acrobat and there was a "problem" with Word Perfect and Acrobat on the math fonts. It happens in a number of army publications and is maddening.

 

[SlideRuleEra]

FM1 - I use both Adobe Acrobat Fill In 4.0 and Adobe Reader 6.0 to read .pdf files. The document (equal signs, etc.) looks good using each of these software programs. I do come across other documents that the 4.0 version cannot read properly, but 6.0 reads with no problem. As BigH has suggested, you may have an older version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (maybe 3.0 or earlier). The errors that you describe could easily be a result. Try downloading the latest (free) Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 and see if that helps. If it does, you may want to uninstall the older version to make sure your computer alway uses the new one.

When I produce a .pdf file from a scanned document, the scanner creates a .tif file (an exact pixel by pixel image of what the scanner sees). Then, print the .tif document (using freeware) as .pdf file. The freeware fools your computer into "thinking" that it is sending the .tif file to a "real" printer. In reality it creates the Adobe .pdf file that you can store on the hard drive.

The quality of the print-to-.pdf conversion of this Army document is very good.

Hope this helps

http://www.SlideRuleEra.net

 

[BigH]

SlideRuleEra - I downloaded jdonville's paper and, even having acrobat 6 and acrobat reader 6, I get ' instead of = in many of the equations.

 

[FM1]

I dont think the version on the reader matters it is the initial step that has done wrong.
we use acrobat 7 in the office , same problem