The Pile Driving Contractors Association 16th Annual International Conference and Expo is coming up in Albuquerque, NM from April 25-27, 2012. Click this link to get more information.
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Click on this link to get an updated (as of 12 March 2012) list of deep foundations events organized and/or sponsored by the Deep Foundations Institute. The G-I is involved in some of these as well. A Call for Papers/Presentations has been issued for the 2012 Southeastern Transportation Geotechnical Engineers Conference (STGEC). The conference will be held October 22-25, 2012 in Richmond, Virginia.
Download the Call for Papers/Presentations here. Abstracts are due June 8th. Contact Contact Carl Benson (Carl.Benson@VDOT.Virginia.gov) or Kwame Adu-Gyamfi (Kwame.Adu‐ The ADSC SE Chapter has been sponsoring a research project on rock-socketed drilled shafts in the Southeast U.S. The project started in 2008 with testing conducted a the first site in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009. The Lawrenceville site was tested in 2011 and is the second site for the project. The report for this site was recently completed and is available for distribution. Click this link to get the report for the Lawrenceville site. More information on both this site and the first test site in Nashville, Tennessee can be found at the blog of the project researcher, Dan Brown and Associates, PC: The 2012 Geo-Congress in Oakland is just around the corner starting March 25th. Registration is open at this link. There are plenty of technical sessions, short courses, and other activities. There is also a great lineup of State of the Art/State of the Practice keynote speakers for each day of the conference. Looking ahead for the G-I, The 2013 Geo-Congress is to be held March 3-6, 2013 in sunny San Diego, California. A Call for Papers will be issued soon. Other events are posted here. The DFI has several events coming up this year, including SuperPile 2012 and the 2012 Annual Conference on Deep Foundations. Check out their events link to see all of the seminars and short courses coming up this year. The ADSC 2012 Expo is coming up March 13-16th. Get more information and register here. The PDCA 16th International Conference and Expo will be April 25-27th. Get information here. Register here. Other events for 2012 are here.
Registration will soon be open for the annual Geo-Institute meeting for 2012 – GeoCongress 2012: State of the Art and Practice in Geotechnical Engineering. The meeting will be in Oakland, California March 25-29, 2012. Short courses, techncial sessions, exhibits, committee meetings, networking, and student copmetiitons will all be includein the activities. Registration will open soon – check back for updates. Sponsorship and Exhibitor opportunities still remain. Hotel information is at the conference link above. DFI has issued a call for papers for their 2012 meeting – the 37th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Houston, TX, October 16-19, 2012. The deadline for abstracts is December 9th. Click here for the call for papers. Registration is still open for the DFI 36th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Boston October 18-21. Get more information and registration links here.
To purchase the print version of this report or get a PDF, follow this link to TRB. Click the “View This PDF” to get the PDF. The ADSC is working on the second in a series of test sites around the Southeast U.S. for a research project to generate load test data for rock sockets in this part of the country. Two test shafts were installed the week of July 26th at the yard of Foundation Technologies, Inc. One included a rock socket to attempt to test side and base resistance in the rock socket. The other shaft was drilled to "rock auger refusal" to attempt to test side resistance in the partially weathered rock (locally termed PWR) and base resistance at "rock auger refusal". In the Piedmont area, the highly weathered upper rock zone is commonly called PWR. Another common usage is “rock auger refusal” to define where “hard rock” begins. It is thought that designers may be overly conservative with base resistance values at “rock auger refusal”. Hopefully this test will provide useful data concerning this issue. A prediction contest for this second test site will be held similar to the one held for the first site in Nashville, Tennessee. Contestants are encouraged to download the information linked below and then submit their predictions of unit side resistance and base resistance that will be measured by the O-cell tests. The winner will be announced at the field test and demonstration day on site, as well as published in this blog along with all submitted predictions. Testing will occur during a field demonstration day on August 18th, 2011. The Field Day will consist of a brief lecture by Dan Brown regarding drilled shaft load testing in general and this testing program specifically. This will be followed by lunch. After lunch, Loadtest, Inc. will be performing the two O-cell tests. Information to include the test shaft configurations and exploratory boring data can be downloaded here. Photos of the excavations will be posted as soon as possible after the excavations are complete (check the project web page soon after August 1st) to assist in making predictions. The contest entry form along with instructions for submission can be downloaded here. All predictions must be submitted by the close of business, August 12, 2011. |
PDCA 16th Annual International Conference and Expo - April 25, 2012 - Albuquerque, NM
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