The Deep Foundations Institute awarded committee member Bernie Hertlein, FACI, M.ASCE with its Distinguished Service Award (DSA) at the 40th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Oakland, California. The DSA is the highest award that DFI bestows on an individual, recognizing those who “have made exceptionally valuable contributions to the advancement of the […]
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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 […] 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 […] SCHEDULE UPDATE – CLICK HERE (6/27/11) After some lengthy delays, the rock-socketed drilled shaft research sponsored by the Southeast Chapter of the ADSC is back on track. A second site has been selected at the site of Foundation Technologies, Inc. in Lawrenceville, Georgia. This site will investigate the resistance of some of the rocks […]
The new FHWA Drilled Shafts: Construction Procedures and LRFD Design Methods has been released and is available for download (PDF) at the FHWA web site. The ADSC has just announced that the printed version is now available to both ADSC members and non-members: By special arrangement with the FHWA, the […] |
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