Routine in-situ and laboratory investigations carried out for the basic design failed to provide reliable values for compressibility and consolidation parameters of soft clay layers at the site of a terminal to be built in Santos. A pilot embankment was designed and built divided in three equal areas, two with wick drains in a square mesh at spacings of...
View ArticleThe energy efficiency in SPT is generally evaluated based on the nominal drop height. Measurements of the
drop height in systems different from those used in Brazil have shown that the drop height values can be significantly
different from the nominal ones, inclusively in those systems where lifting-releasing operations are autom...
This paper reviews the behavior of three types of piles (bored, CFA and Omega piles), installed in the experimental site
of Unicamp (State University of Campinas). Unicamp subsoil is characterized by non-saturated diabasic soil, lateritic in its
surface layer. Extensive data from geotechnical investigation is presented, expressed...
Three different types of piles (bored, CFA and precast driven) were installed in the experimental site located in the
Campus of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto to study the effects of the construction method on pile
performance. The subsoil is a residual granitic soil reaching depth levels over 20 m. In this...
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