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Rades Bridge Drilled Shafts Designed and Tested Using Menard Pressuremeter
The founding soil of the Rades-La Goulette cable-stayed bridge in the Tunis Lake is made up of compressible clays for depths exceeding 120 m. The two main towers were founded on groups of 2m OD and 80 m deep drilled shafts. Two soil surveys were carried out with the Menard pressuremeter down to 105 m depth and were used to predict the bearing capacity of the piles and to estimate their settlement. To check the predictions loading tests were performed, in particular a Class A one on a 1 meter OD and 80 meter deep test drilled shaft. Comparing the observed settlement versus load curve with the predicted one showed a fairly good agreement.
Rades Bridge Drilled Shafts Designed and Tested Using Menard Pressuremeter
The founding soil of the Rades-La Goulette cable-stayed bridge in the Tunis Lake is made up of compressible clays for depths exceeding 120 m. The two main towers were founded on groups of 2m OD and 80 m deep drilled shafts. Two soil surveys were carried out with the Menard pressuremeter down to 105 m depth and were used to predict the bearing capacity of the piles and to estimate their settlement. To check the predictions loading tests were performed, in particular a Class A one on a 1 meter OD and 80 meter deep test drilled shaft. Comparing the observed settlement versus load curve with the predicted one showed a fairly good agreement.
Rades Bridge Drilled Shafts Designed and Tested Using Menard Pressuremeter
Schlosser, François (author) / Guilloux, Alain (author) / Zaghouani, Kamel (author) / Berthelot, Patrick (author)
International Foundation Congress and Equipment Expo 2009 ; 2009 ; Orlando, Florida, United States
2009-03-10
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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