Abstract: Although pressure grouting beneath the tips of drilled shafts had been used successfully worldwide for close to

Abstract: Base grouting below a drilled shaft tipped in sand has been shown in many cases to dramatically improve both the initial stiffness and ultimate end-bearing resistance. After promising results from base-grouting case studies ...

Abstract: The damping associated with dynamic or statnamic tests has typically been over simplified to provide a “catch-all” factor for those responses that could not be fully accounted for using present analyses. This factor has ...

Abstract: Hurricane Charley was the first Category 4 hurricane to strike Florida after 1992. This paper presents results of a study to investigate the performance of 425 of 747 roofs of new homes in Punta Gorda Isles, a subdivision ...

Abstract: This paper presents an overview of a demonstration project in which corroding prestressed piles located in tidal waters were wrapped underwater using carbon and glass fiber-reinforced polymer material. An innovative ...

Abstract: Vacuum bagging and pressure bagging are established techniques used by the composites industry for fabricating components. This paper describes a study that explored the adaptation of these techniques for improving the ...

Abstract: This paper presents results from a multiyear study to evaluate the role of prewrap substrate preparation on corrosion mitigation in a marine environment. Seventeen one-third scale prestressed piles were corroded to 20% ...