Medicine Buffalo

Bridge Foundations: Modeling Large Pile Groups and Caissons for Seismic Design

Keywords: Seismic designs. Large pile groups. Caissons. Retrofitting. Long-span bridges. Ground motions. Soil-foundation-structure interaction (SFSI). Kinematic soil-pile interaction. Linear stiffness ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Design Guidelines for Increasing the Lateral Resistance of Highway-Bridge Pile Foundations by Improving Weak Soils

Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the OpenBook. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a PDF. Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this ...
Purdue University

Use of ‘large open-ended pipe piles’ could lead to lower-cost bridge construction

Civil engineers at Purdue University are leading a project with the Indiana Department of Transportation to learn how to use a type of bridge pile often seen in offshore applications, research that ...
WBAL-TV

Officials provide look at progress of Key Bridge rebuild, test piles being driven into ground

THEY HAVE TWO OF THE LARGEST ROTATING CRANES ON THE EAST COAST RIGHT HERE FOR THIS PROJECT AT THE MOMENT. AND THAT’S BECAUSE OF THE SHEER SIZE OF THE PILES THAT THEY’RE DRIVING IN THIS TEST. THE 200FT ...
For Construction Pros

North Carolina's Basnight Bridge Wins Award for Innovative Concrete Piles

Recognized for conquering the Oregon Inlet’s treacherous current, constantly shifting bathymetry and violent storms, the HDR-designed Marc Basnight Bridge in North Carolina was recently honored with ...
The Journal News

Pile work for Tappan Zee Bridge starting in South Nyack

SOUTH NYACK – Steel supports for the new Tappan Zee Bridge aren't just being installed in the river; they're going in on land as well. Work is starting later this week to install 60-foot-long flat ...