Abstract: Tiebacks are used extensively for temporary lateral support for exterior walls of the new underground Harvard Square transit station in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although not required for permanent conditions, some tiebacks ...

Abstract: Construction of the Silverline Courthouse Station in South Boston involved 18-m-deep excavations at a site underlain by more than 24 m of normally and lightly overconsolidated Boston blue clay (BBC). The excavations were ...

Abstract: Geotechnical instrumentation for both routine monitoring and research was conducted during construction of the new Harvard Square Station, part of expansion of a rapid transit line in metropolitan Boston. The cut‐and‐cover ...