Topics
- Design soil parameters for pile foundation design (laboratory tests and subsurface exploration procedures)
- The design and construction of pile foundations
- Methods of pile foundation design in application subsurface conditions
- Pile types and soil profiles
- Soil strength changes in pile foundation design and construction control
- Group and single capacities of piles to tension, resist compression and lateral loads
- Allowable stress design and load and resistance factor design methods
- Pile refusal, pile driveability, minimum and estimated pile toe elevations
- Consolidation settlement of piled foundations on cohesive soils and cohesionless soils
The Piled Foundations Design Workshop 2014 is suitable for bridge designers, geotechnical engineers, designer, field or laboratory personnel with a background in engineering, consultant review specialists and resident engineers who have passed an undergraduate course in soil mechanics or a GIC course on Soils Engineering.
