A case study describing the experience in modeling and designing the process of construction of the Rio Grande
Breakwater on soft clay deposits is summarized in this paper. Field performance during and after embankment construction was monitored with inclinometers, magnetometers and electrical piezometers providing the necessary information ...

In the Central Area of Brazil, particularly in the city of Goiânia (and in limited cases of the Brazilian capital Brasília), it is becoming common to observe in few foundation projects the design of a single, thick and large raft, supported by several piles, particularly for the central highly loaded and slender part of very tall bu...

The assessment of problems of imperfect, damaged, pile groups is scarce in the geotechnical literature. Besides, techniques of assessing the performance of the foundation system once a defect is found are seldom presented, as well as real examples of the behavior of large scale imperfect foundations after their remediation. Therefore, this paper has ext...

This paper deals with Plaxis 3D finite element simulations of the mechanical response of deep foundations founded in a collapsible tropical soil. Main attention is initially paid to differences between single continuous flight auger (CFA) pile behavior and the behavior of CFA piles in standard groups. The numerically computed load-settlement curves are ...