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

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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 ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Researchers discover solutions to build stronger bridges

Aging infrastructure is a major issue in the U.S. with nearly 50 percent of bridges considered in poor condition—nearly 12 percent are over 80 years old; 42 percent are over 50. Many have high volumes ...
EurekAlert!

Bridges under pressure

Can a bridge withstand an earthquake? One of the big unknowns is how far a bridge might settle from seismic shaking, especially if the shaking triggers a quicksand-like soil response called ...
WNCT

Test pile project to begin at Alligator River Bridge

COLUMBIA, N.C. – N.C. Department of Transportation contractors will soon begin driving as many as 18 concrete test piles into the bed of the Alligator River, an important step in the project to ...
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 ...