Get the New FHWA Drilled Shaft Manual
Get the NCHRP Synthesis 418 – Pile Criteria From Test Pile Data
Dan’s Speaking Schedule March 16, 2012 - "Advanced" Design and Construction Issues with Drilled Shaft Foundations; Case Histories - ADSC Equipment EXPO and Technical Conference - San Antonio, Texas
March 26-28, 2012 - State of the Art and Practice for Drilled Foundations - GeoCongress 2012 - ASCE/Geo-Institute - San Francisco, California
Other DBA Team Speaking Appearences Tim Siegel (January 22, 2012): Innovative Techniques for Characterizing Karst Terrain, Workshop on Geo-innovation in Subsurface Exploration, TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
John Turner and Robert Thompson (February 21-23, 2012): NHI Drilled Shaft Course - Kansas DOT, Topeka, Kansas
Robert Thompson (February 24, 2012): Conservatism in Drilled Shaft Design When
Utilizing Rock Sockets, Alabama Transportation Conference, Montgomery, Alabama
Tim Siegel (March 15, 2012): Micropile Design Installation and Performance for the Foothills Parkway, ADSC Equipment EXPO and Technical Conference, San Antonio, Texas
Robert Thompson (March 15, 2012): Full-Scale Load Tests on Drilled Shafts in Tennessee and Georgia, ADSC Equipment EXPO and Technical Conference, San Antonio, Texas
Erik Loehr (March 15, 2012): Slope Stabilization Using Micropiles, ADSC Equipment EXPO and Technical Conference, San Antonio, Texas
TBA (April 10-12, 2012): NHI Drilled Shaft Course - South Carolina DOT, Columbia, South Carolina
Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, Workshops
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New DBA Staff Addition – plus, Dan “retires” from Auburn University
By Robert Thompson, on October 30th, 2009
Two items of note here:
Aaron Hudson has joined DBA as a staff engineer. Aaron earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He was Dan’s last graduate student at Auburn, or will be as soon as he gets his thesis finished! He will complete the M.S. degree from Auburn in 2010. Aaron has worked as a soil technician, lab technician, and occasional drill hand for his father’s firm The Summit Group of Louisiana in Sulpher, Louisiana. Immediately prior to joining DBA, he worked for almost a year as a staff engineer for TTL, Inc. in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Aaron will work as a staff engineer and will get to spend a good deal of time in the field. Welcome aboard, Aaron!
If you read the above, you may have noticed I wrote “last graduate student”. Yes, in case you had not heard, Dan “retired” from Auburn University. I used the quotes to indicate that Dan didn’t really retire, he really made a career change back into full time consulting, where he began after finishing his M.S. at Georgia Tech way back when. Actually, it was 1977, so it wasn’t really all that long ago, right?
For those that are familiar with the hectic travel schedule Dan kept while having two full time jobs as professor and consultant, it hasn’t changed a bit. As our business continues to grow, Dan seems to be always somewhere besides the office!
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