Abstract: Soil disturbance caused by the installation of prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) has a large impact on the rate of consolidation. It is essential in design to quantify this effect. In this paper, we investigate the ...

Abstract: A cavity expansion-based theory for calculation of cone penetration resistance

Abstract: The steelmaking industry in the United States generates 9–16 million metric tons of steel slag every year. The excess steel slag (

Abstract: Most of the current design methods for driven piles were developed for closed-ended pipe piles driven in either pure clay or clean sand. These methods are sometimes used for H piles as well, even though the axial load ...

Abstract: Rock-socketed piles are often used to transfer heavy loads from a superstructure to competent underlying rock layers. The loads are transferred by the pile to the surrounding rock mass through shaft and base resistance. ...

Abstract: This paper reviews the energy-based solutions that have been proposed for boundary value problems involving pile foundations subjected to lateral loads and presents semianalytical solutions that are applicable to both ...

Abstract: This paper presents a semianalytical solution for axially loaded pile groups in multilayered, linear-elastic soil profiles. The piles in the group can have circular, square, or rectangular cross sections. The soil displacement ...

Abstract: This paper presents a semianalytical solution for axially loaded pile groups in multilayered, linear-elastic soil profiles. The piles in the group can have circular, square, or rectangular cross sections. The soil displacement ...