Piling is a type of soil treatment, which is required when the soil bearing capacity is not sufficient for the structure to with stand. This is due to soil conditions, type of l ...
Driven piles is a kind of piles used also to transfer the load from the structure to the ground. Driven pile is prefabricated pile driven into the ground-using pile driver. It i ...
Shoring is the process of supporting a building, structure or trench with shores when a danger of collapse or during repairs.
The main purpose of this type of work is to f ...
The main goal of soil improvement techniques used for reducing liquefaction hazards is to avoid large increases in pore water pressure during earthquake. This can be achieved by ...
For a safe foundation to perform as desired the ultimate strength of each pile must fulfill both structural and geotechnical limits.
Some pile load tests are a direct meth ...