I recently had a consolidated undrained triaxial test with pore pressure measurements performed and need some assistance in determining if the results look valid. If I am interpreting this correctly, the pore pressure is much greater than the cell pressure. In calculating the effective value...
I am performing an Lpile analysis for a small boat dock along a river. The dock will be 6' wide by 30 feet long with the structural engineer wanting to support it using 2 12" diameter pipe piles (HSS 18x.05). At normal pool the dock would be at Elev. 455' and during flood, 472' resulting in a...
I have a square bearing plate for a micropile design and the contractor want to utilize a circular bearing plate. Can someone help me in determining how the equation would change. See...
I am working on a micropile underpinning design and need some help with the bearing plate design I have a micropile with a compressive load of 30 kips. The connection of a gusset plate will be on the exterior of the foundation, secured with 18, 1/2" bolts. I need to check the punching shear...
I am working on a project and am looking for some guidance from the group. I've been asked to run an L-pile analysis for a retaining wall that will be supported on a drilled pier foundation. The wall will consist of the drilled pier foundation tied together with a grade beam with pilasters...
I am looking for anyone who has had experience in determining settlement of utilities under crane loading. I have a client who is looking to move a large generator with a crawler type crane and is concerned about damaging the underground utilities. Any help/guidance with similar experiences...
